Sasquatch Robot Controller powered by Arduino

[McGurky]

Originally Posted by coalhot

I had a few questions of my own with this, firstly that it (meaning arduino) seems quite underpowered to handle any video streams/processing. I know that the current cRio, while also underpowered, still can handle more, and teams have attached other boards to process video (such as beagleboard, pandaboard, etc). My question is would it be possible to do something like 341 did this year where the video was streamed to the driver station, processed there, and then the commands given; or is it not possible?

This would still be possible, depending on restrictions that could be put on by FIRST. Teams that processed vision on the Dashboard with the driver station computer did so by accessing the camera feed straight from the camera, without any processing through the C-Rio. The processed information was then sent to the C-Rio through whatever protocol the team decided worked best. (at least this is what ours, and all teams I talked to did)

This type of control scheme would certainly be possible with this controller. And personally, I believe it is best to leave the image processing to something much better suited like full computers or dedicated Graphics processing electronics like the panda, beagle, CMU etc (Albeit still under powered).

One thing that I really liked about this solution was the simple and easy to use DS Chrome plug in; cross-platform and easy to update. I also love the cost/functionality ratio in comparison to the other control options on the market.

There is a thriving community behind AVR systems (what Arduino is), and this could greatly benefit FRC teams.

Thank you 221 for opening this up to the community!