Team 195 needs a Kangaroo Plus (4GB version)

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Hey Delphi,
I have been scouring the earth for a spare Kangaroo Plus. We acquired a Kangaroo Plus from Newegg before they went out of stock and it works great. We desire another one as a spare because if the one we have now breaks, we are in a world of hurt. We need the version with 4GB of RAM (the original release of the device had 2GB).

I understand these units are popular for home theater PCs so I’ve been posting in AV and home theater forums trying to find one and I even have a regular 2GB Kangaroo coming in from eBay just in case. I wanted to ask the Delphi community if anyone had purchased a Plus and decided not to use it.

I will cover your full purchase price and shipping. If you have one you are willing to part with please message me here or email me at [email protected] Thank you and good luck to everyone as the season grinds on!!

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Good move securing a backup. Our Kanagroo overheated at UNH this year and we had to scramble to get a laptop up and running.

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Didn’t know the Kangaroo Plus was a thing.

We have two Kangaroo’s (non-plus) and experienced overheating after running 8-10 minutes of our vision processing. We’ve since added muffin fans to the vent slots on the sides of the unit. This appears to mostly solved the issue.

-Mike

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Thanks for the tips so far!

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What do you use this for? Driver station?

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Onboard vision.

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Yep. Takes the load off the rio so it can focus on robot tasks and the Kangaroo targets the goal.

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Same here for the use of the Kangaroo…
Onboard vision processing.