board: minimum hardware requirements? single board? full motherboard? nuc? mini-itx?
hi. we're trying to decide what board we should use for our robot prototype. any advice/recommendation is much appreciated. we're looking for an affordable board that can handle kinect and kobuki.
our robot is fairly similar to turtlebot:
- we'll use kinect for depth camera
- we'll use kobuki base or build our our differential drive 4 wheel drive base.
- we'll use have one or two arms with dynamixels.
- we would love to have low power consumption so that the robot can operate as long as possible
- and of course, it runs ROS
from our initial research:
singleboard computer (i.e. raspberry pi, beaglebone black, etc): the cost is really good but it seems like they can't handle kinect well. we haven't done extensive work with ros for ubuntu arm yet, but there seems to be some limitations vs. ros full desktop.
full motherboards (i.e. intel i5 or i7): they definitely can do the job, but the costs are really high. and the processing power seems to be overkilled.
midrange options like NUC, mini-ITX, etc: i have no idea how they perform and if they work well with kinect and kobuki
any recommendation/feedback/advice is much appreciated.
