Running the Kinect on the Robot.

[sebflippers]

Our team has been working on this for a while, and we have gotten a kinect feed on our pandaboard. Creating the 640x480 depthImage uses ~60% (30fps), but doing anything with the data (like opencv filtering) brought us down to <5fps. 987 did this before, and they skipped 5 pixels at a time to achieve reasonable framerate. We were thinking of just sending the raw depthImage (using openni) to the driver station dashboard (with opencv), and then back to the cRio, all over Ethernet.

spi & i2c are unnecessary. Just use ethernet.

rPi is waaay too slow.