Raspberry Pi Allowed?

[gluxon]

Has there been a clarification if a Raspberry Pi is allowed to be used as an electrical component on the competition robots? I remember reading a discussion that argued for that it was not allowed as Raspberry Pi's are pre-assembled.

Additionally, another team has a document explaining their Raspberry Pi setup. Does anyone know if this is competition legal?

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2709

[ajc]

My suspicion is yes, just because laptops < 400$ and built computers are legal.

care to explain what your plan is? I have difficulty imagining a use case where a raspberry pi is the right idea...

[nathan_hui]

The RasPi would be considered a COTS component, subject to R12, R13, R14, R15, R19, R34, R39, R40, R47, R48, R49, R54, R55, R56, R58, R67, R72. I'm not going to list them out completely, you have the resources to do that.

As long as the RasPi you get is on it's own (no larger COTS package includes it such that you also use the larger package on the robot), or said COTS package complies to the following conditions, you can use it, if the RasPi (or COTS package) is less than $400.

[wireties]

Sure, the Pi can be used. Be careful what you use it for! There are restrictions about motor and sensor control going through the cRIO.

The classic use of the Pi is to connect a USB camera to the Pi, run the targeting algorithms and send the targeting data to the cRIO via Ethernet. This is perfect legal.

One could also have the Pi process accelerometer and/or gyro data then send field position data to the cRIO. This is also legal.

HTH

[jmiller18]

It is allowed, the only problem is that it is it CAN NOT be used to control actuators, it can gather input data and process it, but it can't actuate