Louis T
USA
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I was thinking about embedding a computer inside the robot, my concerns are: how do you operate it without a screen? for example if i were putting it inside an R2D2 or WALL-E robot that don't need a screen. Do you all plug in a screen every time you turn it on?
Which mini-itx board/system? i know about the DELL FX160 $40 but then i gotta buy rams, hdd, usb wifi/bluetooth/sound card, which adds up. Looking for the cheapest solution that runs decent and compatible with Windows 7 if possible for speech recognition. Already have a SSD on hand.
Thanks
DJ...you're kidding right? SSD is the fastest drive on the market, don't think any Compact Flash or the fastest HDD can top it. I have 3 crucial M4 128GB, all my desktop boots to desktop screen in less than 30 seconds. Never heard of SSD being slow before
@louis sdhd is what he meant , that's when you use a compact flash , sd card or USB thumbdrive as your bootable drive where your os is installed , your average card is slow as molasses. There are much faster class 10 sd cards and faster compact flash but in performance terms you are right Louis , however he's talking about cheap. I have 450 dollars in my mini board before I bought my video card ,because I want best I could fit in a small package with lower mobile class current draw. For someone on a budget 100 bucks for a working mini OTC to make their bot independent and autonomous is excellent , its even less than ezb itself! Lol
I thought thats what he meant too but I've never heard of SDHD, did you mean SDHC? Can be confusing sometime with all these different formats. I still think its too slow to boot OS even class 10 Sandisk Extreme SD card. Sure i love to get a fully working mini itx pc for $100 but i don't know which board i should get and what ram, i think all i need is a board w/cpu, rams, and pico 12v psu, i have a SSD to use.
Let me ask this whats your short and long term plans for the bot? If its simple , just a few sensors maybe 4 to 6 servos buy the 55 dollar board I picked out for you , if you want it to be a bit faster and have the data faster connection for your SSD , grab the 79 dollar AMD board I picked out for you , personally I recommend the 79 dollar board , its 25 more but shipping is free and out performs the cheaper one you will make better use of your SSD, get 4gig ram of whatever the board calls for for best performance , viualaals , mini pc f 100 bucks fr you man
I got this one from newegg. 1.6ghz embedded CPU and will take up to 16gb of ram.
Lol wows , 16gb ram for that CPU , overkill for sure. The Hudson is a nice chipset and has double the benchmarks of the much older Atom 1.6ghz . What are you using it for sam? Going to do a omni?
OK but you can't laugh.... I'm doing a franken bot. He's gonna be a hearoid omni body, robosapien torso and ottobot head. Already starting on the robosapien part. He's the sharper image chrome one so I am thinking of black and chrome. IDK
He's gonna be my leaf bot. My minion was fun but he has too many limitations with his design. It was more important that it look like a minion for me. Now I need something that functions. Plus everyone is getting tired of hearing my ideas so I need someone to talk to. :o) JK but seriously. Sigh.......
I am looking at touch screens.
Leaf? So no ezb?