Robots and Pi

State of the art, challenges and ideas for building robots with the RaspberryPi

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1. Robots and Pi
   Raspberry Jam SG #4
   HackerspaceSG
   

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2. ??
   

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3. Using Raspberry Pi to make Robots!
   ● Step 1 : Buy a Raspberry Pi
   ● Step 2 : ??
   ● Step 3 : Profit!
   

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4. Using Raspberry Pi to make Robots
   ● What's out there?
   ● Challenges?
   ● Solutions?
   

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5. What's out there?
   Fish Pi
   fishpi.org
   

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6. What's out there?
   TigerEye
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5ThFNf2_44
   

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7. What's out there?
   Charlotte
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya1GKuCRWfo
   

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8. What's out there?
   Hagar
   

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9. What's out there?
   Pibotnix
   http://livebots.cc/Robot/View/30
   

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10. What's out there?
    Picopter
    http://www.botched.co.uk/picopters-maiden-flight/
    

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11. What's out there?
    AUVs
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=H0mIRADzzik
    

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12. What's out there?
    CoconutPi
    https://www.facebook.com/coconutpi?fref=ts
    

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13. What's out there?
    Bartendro
    http://partyrobotics.com/our-bots/bartendro-15/
    

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14. Challenges : IO
    

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15. Challenges : IO
    

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16. Challenges : Performance
    

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17. Challenges : Performance
    iPhone RPi
    ARM 1136JS
    

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18. Challenges : Performance
    ● No GP-GPU (CUDA/OpenCL) support (yet?)
    ● Max 512MB RAM (yet?)
    ● No High Speed Bus
    

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19. Strengths
    ● Power Usage
    

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20. Strengths
    ● Community
    

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21. Possible Solutions?
    ● Distributed Architecture?
    Command and Control
    RaspberryPi
    Sensor Board
    (Pre-Calculate)
    Controller Board
    Sensor Actuator
    

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22. Possible Solutions?
    ● Dedicated OS
    

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23. !!
    

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24. Interesting Links
    Hack A Day
    http://hackaday.com/category/raspberry-pi-2/
    RaspberryPi Foundation Blog
    http://www.raspberrypi.org/
    The MagPi
    http://www.themagpi.com/
    

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25. Interesting Links
    Singapore AUV Challenge
    http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/singapore/oes/sauvc/
    Robot OS
    http://www.ros.org/wiki/Robots#Robots_Using_ROS
    Adafruit #piday
    http://www.adafruit.com/blog/?s=piday
    

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26. Geek · Acoustician · Podcaster
    http://chinpen.net
    Chinmay Pendharkar
    

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