[HH] Rethinking LinuxPC Robot -- the Linux PI Robot

[Greg London]

someone took a $12 VGA camera and ported it to two of
the 12 pin PMOD connectors on the zedboard.

http://hamsterworks.co.nz/mediawiki/index.php/OV7670_camera

(there are at least enough pmod connectors on the board
to have two such cameras in the system)


>>As many of you know, I have a robot project.
>>http://www.linuxpcrobot.org/
>>Over the years I have tried to keep the robot as a viable platform and
>>maintain development costs to the sub $500 range.
>
> Well, I would say that the $500 is somewhat arbitrary
> in that it doesn't seem to take into account the
> time and energy that others would need to assemble
> your system and debug it.
>
> If you want a design that raises the material cost a little bit
> but *dramatically* drops the labor others need to spend
> to take your design and implement it themselves,
> then you might consider the zedboard.
>
> http://www.zedboard.org/content/key-features
>
> Zedboard. Dual ARM® Cortex™-A9 MPCore™,
> half a gig of DDR3, ethernet, usb, HDMI,
> and over a million gates equivaent of FPGA fabric.
>
> You can run linux on the processors
> and put all the vision processing hardware you want
> in the FPGA fabric.
>
> You'll also have available stuff like CANBUS ports,
> so you can use standard motor controllers such as this:
>
> http://www.vexrobotics.com/vexpro/motor-controllers/217-3367.html
>
> Then you can run the control software in the ARM
> on linux, but have a motor controller that will keep
> the robot from burning itself out if the software crashes
> or gets stuck in a loop or something.
>
>
>
>
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