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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson
So... ...I want to have a laptop or some such that has an integral battery that could stay alive during the power cycles on the robot and could also be a USB host for the Arduino(s) that are counting pulses and also act as a bridge from USB on the Arduino(s) to the some ethernet protocol (UDP I suppose?) to get data to the cRIO.
It seems to me that this would be legal (assuming the 2013 rules apply in 2014).
What does the Chief Delphi community think?
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COTS laptop on the robot was legal in 2013, if under $400.
USB on COTS laptop to power another device like a camera was legal in 2013 (if that device is interfaced only to the COTS laptop).
Personally I'd use the Parallax Propeller for this, it has USB and the cogs lend themselves to reading encoders nicely, that said using that or the Arduino as a custom circuit should have been legal in 2013.
Keep in mind you are going to add at least 1 pound of weight doing all this.
Perhaps you can manage this with an Android device?