Vision co-processor Raspberry Pi (Raspbian Jessie/OpenCV)

[Skyehawk]

Hello all,
Machine vision routinely finds it's way into every few programming threads. FIRST has yet to give us a task that cannot be solved with the basic control system, but speed is almost always better in vision system, which can become an intensive process. A co-processor is a good way to offload some vision related tasks. The Raspberry pi 3 is readily available and low cost; a good entry level co-processor.

Open-CV is almost a necessity in machine vision, and can sometimes be an issue to get up and running (despite taking a few hours to build and install). I have a image of Raspbian Jessie with Open-CV installed that I am willing to share. I think there may be some licensing issues with my posting a download link, but PM me and I'll get you set up with the image and some documentation. I am not overly knowledgeable on the install process, so I will not be a huge help if issues arise, but the community is a great resource. The image is a bare bones Open-CV install built to run with python 2/3, no vision code or Pi/robot-Rio interface code is included.

Regards,
Skye Leake