I'm looking for a platform for basic image processing. Found nice products called fit-pc & fit-pc2i
Does anyone know/use better alternatives for that? It would be great if it could run Linux/Windows.
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@Ed, thanks. Is this the one you used? http://www.pc104.org/product.php?id=559
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
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:
I have a couple Fit-PC 3s that I have for work. They are okay, however Foxconn sells a tiny nettop based on the E-350 which is much faster and more modern (and 1/4 the price!)
Gumstix, Beagleboard, Pandaboard, etc. are all great barebone boards and don't come with any bulky stuff, some even have built-in WiFi which can be handy if you don't need super long-range comms.
Check out the Gumstix Overo computers (especially the Fire and Water). Haven't flown one yet but the power is there to run linux et al.
https://www.gumstix.com
@Maxime, the dronolab one is quite nice. I'm reading it carefully. It also uses OpenCV, which I intend to use!
@Rory Paul, yes you are right. I was looking into ethernet option as well.
@Monroe, the board found @ http://defense.ge-ip.com/products/2063 looks good :-). I guess we can't develop on linux or windows on it?
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