Legality of External Co-processor

[purduephotog]

Originally Posted by Jeff 801

Some food for thought... if you can have a netbook on your robot how would you make sure it was powered up before the start of the match because they do no allow you have have it powered up before they tell you to (or at least that was how it was for the 2009 season) and with that they gave maybe 30 seconds from the time of power up to the match start.

Maybe 30 seconds? I think you're being too optimistic

Even if you were allowed to let the netbook 'sleep' you're still talking about 10 seconds to 'wake' from s3 mode. If you're talking boot you'd better consider modding the book to use one of the intel solid state drives (I just saw one for under 300$).

To be honest it seems like overkill. There is tons of prebuilt stuff for Java and the cRio, spec wise, can handle quite a few solid imagery operations (with the exception of J2K).

I'm wishing I had access to one right now (cRio and java) to experiment.

Are you trying to do image processing with stereo? If thats the case you could simply use a few USB cameras and have them request raw data- cheaper than the 'net camera and significantly faster (lower res). The Microsoft VX-3000 are cheap at 20$ a piece.