NetDuino Plus 2
Posted: Nov 30th, 2014, 8:59 am
To all;
When I started looking into building an ROV over a year ago I wanted to start with a clean sheet and no assumptions. I went to the OpenROV kickstarter page and their website, following their logic for why they chose to do different things and immediately saw some assumptions that on the face were dubious and have since been proved to be problematic.
I think the project and the press that it's garnered (and the community) are all great, but the approach to me seems inherently flawed for a variety of reasons.
Then I sat down with everything I'd learned in my first few weeks/months of research (without actually getting wet! ) and made a list of features, costs, benefits and drawbacks of different approaches.
One of the things on here was the 'brains' or main processor of the system. I gave some thought to various configurations of Arduino, Beaglebone, Raspberry Pi, and I included one I had read about but didn't hear anyone using which is the Netduino Plus 2 and that is the one that provided the most benefits (including widely used programming language) that fit into my project and was the cheapest when you include all of the minimum required features (I/O, Comm, processing power...)
Then I ignored all of the data and picked Arduino because it's what I had on the shelf.
Then I changed my mind when the Raspberry Pi came out with their HD webcam and decided to use that.
Then I decided the Rpi environment was a little too complicated for my tastes and decided on a hybrid Rpi (for webcam/vid storage) and Arduino with Network capability for control/comm and navigation cam (low res).
Now I've come full circle and I think I'm going to finally listen to my initial data and try the Netduino Plus 2.
ha ha. Wish me luck! (and if anyone has any experience with Netduino let me know)
When I started looking into building an ROV over a year ago I wanted to start with a clean sheet and no assumptions. I went to the OpenROV kickstarter page and their website, following their logic for why they chose to do different things and immediately saw some assumptions that on the face were dubious and have since been proved to be problematic.
I think the project and the press that it's garnered (and the community) are all great, but the approach to me seems inherently flawed for a variety of reasons.
Then I sat down with everything I'd learned in my first few weeks/months of research (without actually getting wet! ) and made a list of features, costs, benefits and drawbacks of different approaches.
One of the things on here was the 'brains' or main processor of the system. I gave some thought to various configurations of Arduino, Beaglebone, Raspberry Pi, and I included one I had read about but didn't hear anyone using which is the Netduino Plus 2 and that is the one that provided the most benefits (including widely used programming language) that fit into my project and was the cheapest when you include all of the minimum required features (I/O, Comm, processing power...)
Then I ignored all of the data and picked Arduino because it's what I had on the shelf.
Then I changed my mind when the Raspberry Pi came out with their HD webcam and decided to use that.
Then I decided the Rpi environment was a little too complicated for my tastes and decided on a hybrid Rpi (for webcam/vid storage) and Arduino with Network capability for control/comm and navigation cam (low res).
Now I've come full circle and I think I'm going to finally listen to my initial data and try the Netduino Plus 2.
ha ha. Wish me luck! (and if anyone has any experience with Netduino let me know)