How to power the Kinect on the robot.

[Bryscus]

Originally Posted by RufflesRidge

I would suspect that the voltage dips may be a larger problem than the 13ish volts of a fully charged battery.

That is a REALLY good point. I guess it all depends on whether the Kinect has a regulator build and how low it drops the voltages.

- Bryce

[yara92]

Do you mean to use the Kinect on the robot. They really meant it for the driver station. There is no need to contact with the Robot.
I hope I understand right that should connect with classmate. So there is no need to connect with Robot.

[RoboMaster]

Originally Posted by yara92

Do you mean to use the Kinect on the robot. They really meant it for the driver station. There is no need to contact with the Robot.

Correct. FIRST meant it for the driver station and you don't have to put it on your robot.

But FIRST has allowed us to put it on the robot if we want/can. Benefits include being able to sense the environment really well.

[MPlant]

Just jumping in as this rather pertains to me -- has anyone been able to power the kinect on the robot yet?

[David Kaplan]

Our systems team has changed its mind as they weren't happy with the resolution the Kinect provided, but we had been planning to cut the power cord from the output of the wall transformer/rectifier and connect it to the PDB with a smaller SnapAction breaker than provided by FIRST... never did get to try it though...