Actually, size and battery power is an issue for us. We are currently deciding between a mini ITX, a mac mini and an EPIC express, all with Core 2 Duo. On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Chris Brown wrote: > I assume by asking this question you want something cheap > If size and battery power isnt an issue you could just use a desktop m/b > with a decent processor > > > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:11 AM, William Woodall wrote: > >> We have used the Zotac ION boards as well and we've had good success, I >> just suggested the fit-pc2 because it uses less power, is inclosed, and is >> smaller. We had a few projects that demanded those things over processing >> power. >> >> We used the >> http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-ionitx-a-u-atom-n330-1-6ghz-dual-core-mini-itx-intel-motherboard.html on >> our autonomous lawnmower competition and we were running the robotpose_ekf @ >> ~30Hz and the entire move_base system at 20Hz and a custom vision algorithm >> at ~10Hz that involved a birds eye transform, several filters, a pattern >> matching step, and at least one hough transform and sometimes two. We ran >> fairly well, though we had some performance problems from time to time and >> ultimately for next years entry we have upgraded to a full on core-i7 system >> because size and power is not a concern for us on the lawnmower. >> >> Hope that gives you an idea of what the Zotac is capable of, >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> William Woodall >> Graduate Software Engineering >> Auburn University >> w@auburn.edu >> wjwwood@gmail.com >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> >> 2010/12/31 Björn Giesler >> >> Hi, >>> >>> I bought the PC for my robot a couple of months ago. I looked at the >>> fit-pc2, which looked interesting, but ultimately I settled on this box: >>> >>> http://www.zotac.com/pdbrochures/ZBOX/ZBOX-HD-ID11_v1.pdf >>> >>> Main reason was that in addition to the Atom 550, it has an NVIDIA Ion >>> graphics chip, which is supported by CUDA and offers a bit of extra >>> performance for image processing. E.g. there are ports of SIFT/SURF feature >>> detectors, Haar cascades and optical flow algorithms for CUDA. You can't use >>> any of them directly on the Ion because they are mostly written for NVIDIA's >>> big iron, but they should be easily portable. Not that I've tried yet. >>> >>> Zotac even has barebone motherboards with the Atom 550 / ION combination >>> that take 12V from a power supply. I think this is currently one of the >>> cheapest and most powerful solutions in this segment. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Björn >>> >>> Am 31.12.2010 um 07:17 schrieb Homer Manalo: >>> >>> > Thanks for the infos. The fit-pc2 looks very interesting, how would you >>> compare it with this: >>> http://www.pcx.com.ph/index.php/intel-blkd510mo-w-intel-atom-dc.html in >>> terms of image processing capabilities? >>> > >>> > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:13 AM, William Woodall >>> wrote: >>> > If you are looking for a small, low power x86 type computer you should >>> checkout the fit-pc2. We've had good success with these computers. >>> > >>> > -- >>> > >>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> > William Woodall >>> > Graduate Software Engineering >>> > Auburn University >>> > w@auburn.edu >>> > wjwwood@gmail.com >>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Bill Mania >>> wrote: >>> > Homer, >>> > >>> > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 06:24:22PM +0800, Homer Manalo wrote: >>> > > I'd like to know what kind of computer are you using for your robots. >>> I >>> > > would also like to know what are your recommendations for a robot >>> that will >>> > > make a lot of use of image processing, say two stereo cameras. Are >>> intel >>> > > atoms sufficient for the job? What about beagleboards? Or the pico >>> ITX from >>> > > VIA? >>> > >>> > I'm in Chicago and building a hobby robot. I'm currently using an >>> > old Dell notebook computer (with the display removed) and an AVR >>> > microcontroller. I plan to have a single webcam, two motor >>> > controllers, two ultrasonic rangefinders, a gyroscope and a GPS. >>> > >>> > So far, I seem to have sufficient computing capacity, but the >>> > whole thing is a bit heavy. 8^( >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Bill Mania /'mæ ɲə/ >>> > dum vivimus, vivamus! >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > ros-users mailing list >>> > ros-users@code.ros.org >>> > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > ros-users mailing list >>> > ros-users@code.ros.org >>> > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > ros-users mailing list >>> > ros-users@code.ros.org >>> > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >>> >>> -- >>> Björn Giesler >>> bjoern@giesler.de >>> Verschlüssel Deine Emails -- oder schreibst Du Deine Briefe außen auf den >>> Umschlag? >>> Meinen Schlüssel findest Du auf >>> http://giesler.biz/~bjoern/downloads/bg.asc -- schick mir Deinen! >>> Mehr Informationen findest Du auf http://www.gnupg.org/index.de.html >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ros-users mailing list >>> ros-users@code.ros.org >>> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> > > > -- > Chris > Aluminium Replacement Parts > @arpartsau > > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > >