[Ri3D] Help BOOM DONE. Rpi Camera Tips and Tricks

[Joe Johnson]

As I've said before, Team BOOM DONE. has a stronger group of roboticist than any FIRST team I have been associated with. I am not bragging, I'm just stating facts here: My colleagues know how to make great robots.

BUT... ...we are not that deep when it comes to FIRST experience.

The coders on the team have decided they want to do something with the Vision System aspect of the game (distance and angle to target for example).

Their Plan A is to use the IP Camera that so many FIRST teams use (Axis M1013 Camera), ship the image over to the laptop via wifi, process the images with Roborealm, and send date back to the CRIO via the magic of Network Tables.

But that is not our coders "home field" if you know what I mean. They would much prefer use OpenCV on Linux. Also, they hate latencies of any kind (yet alone unpredictable ones based on network traffic). They'd much prefer to keep everything on the robot if they can. Finally, add to that they I'm forcing them to use a system that is accessible to the 30th percentile FRC team and they sent me an e-mail asking to order a bunch of Rpi stuff (see jpg attached).

SO... ...does anyone have any experience using the Raspberry Pi and associated camera to do FIRST type things?

If so, are you willing to share your experience?

Is this a recipe for disaster? if so, is it redeemable or should we formulate another plan?

Is the Rpi Plan B better than the Roborealm Plan A and should we make Rpi our Plan A?

Finally, what are the best threads on ChiefDelphi.com where this is talked about?

Help us get smarter faster.

Thanks,

Dr. Joe