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  • Yadgaorov Timur May 25, 2012 at 9:48pm

    for oilpan stm multipilot

    multipilot 32

  • Boris May 25, 2012 at 2:39am

    I don't think that computer can handle  angles regulation on multi rotor, because we need a real time based operating system, (like uClinux). But for high image processing,I think it could be completely OK !

  • Michael Evans May 24, 2012 at 6:27pm
    http://www.droid-life.com/2012/05/21/75-can-buy-you-ice-cream-sandw...
  • j.baum53 May 24, 2012 at 1:58pm

    would this be a task for a 32-bit ARM processor, or would something better be required?

  • iraqigeek May 24, 2012 at 1:27pm

    While not in the same league as the fit-pc in terms of processing power, the eBox 3350mx might be an option depending on your processing power requirements:

    http://robosavvy.com/store/product_info.php/products_id/1704

    Another option might be buying a used Sony Vaio P:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_VAIO_P_series

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    Ruwan May 24, 2012 at 11:00am

    @Ed, thanks. Is this the one you used? http://www.pc104.org/product.php?id=559

  • robert bouwens May 24, 2012 at 10:36am

    in general pc based platforms miss industrial ports like spi and i2c.

    all arm platforms will have these ports and much more. but not more cpu power.

     

    @ed: really nice blimp

  • Ed May 24, 2012 at 9:19am

    I worked in a team of 4 last year to build and fly an autonomous blimp to do 3D reconstruction of the terrain using computer vision (a single camera + IMU).

     

    We used a PC104 board featuring a 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo chip. Camera was firewire. Everything written to an SSD. The CPU was pegged but then 3D reconstruction is a harder problem than a lot of other cvis. Anyway, we were pleased with the performance of the PC104 boards. We put Arch Linux on it, which is a particularly delicious flavour I think. Raspberry Pi is certainly not 'plenty' of processing power assuming modern cvis algorithms and decent resolution and frame-rates. But it might be enough for the app.

     

    Video of it just because we all like videos of flying hardware:

     

  • Mike de Landgraaf May 24, 2012 at 2:16am

    raspberry pi is the way to go, $25 bucks and plenty of processing power

  • Ovidiu Sopa May 23, 2012 at 11:30pm

    indeed E-350 chip has lots of procesing power, you can check out a few Asus motherboards here :

    http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_CPU_on_Board

    and 8 motherboards with E-350 comparison test at this link 

    http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/e-350-motherboard-brazos,2958.html

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