Society of Robots - Robot Forum
Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: farnoise on November 25, 2011, 08:48:02 AM
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Hi Guys,
I was surfing a robot website where I ran into a robot that was using a 3.0 Ghz Dual Core intel processor ??? :o, I mean when I though about it I guess there will be nothing that this robot won't do (Logic, I/O and processing wise) but I just can't figure out how you would replace a small 8 Mhz microcontroller with a giant 3.GHz processor.. is it doable? I have tonz of processors hanging around my office, could someone shed some light on this please, I'd love to know a little bit more about this,
PS: Well as you could say I am not a pro so if I am missing a simple link in here please let me know.
Many thanks
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To use PC processor You need to have compatible motherboard for it. Having that said, You can either buy one, or build one (which is not easy if You consider DIY).
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So you are saying I should just use a motherboard?? are there any special kind of motherboards for robots, cuz considering how much power they consume its nor ideal to have a motherboard in robot i guess
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There are already lots of boards available that can run Linux and be used in robots. For example
http://www.adafruit.com/products/278 (http://www.adafruit.com/products/278)
http://www.gumstix.com/ (http://www.gumstix.com/)
http://beagleboard.org/ (http://beagleboard.org/)
Lots of more possibilities at
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/ (http://www.linuxfordevices.com/)
The next rev of Arduino will include a 32-bit ARM version, which will be capable of running linux, but I doubt it will come that way.
http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/arm-arduino-coming (http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/arm-arduino-coming)
Edit, my mistake the new Arduino isn't going to have enough RAM or flash to run linux.