Just got myself a Cenovo to hook up my InMoov to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJtnNrCB7Ic

I was going to go the Raspi route, but when the price of a Pi kit worked out the same as this. It arrived this week and so far I'm impressed. Space is limited so I've hooked it up to a usb harddrive to store all the MRL stuff. 2 days in it decided it was time to update to Windows 10 which went flawless.

The shop listing for it didn't mention wifi so I was pleased to find wifi is included which means I can remote into it. It runs off 5v so hopefully I can use a step down to run it off the InMoov battery and make him more independent.

The windows os is 32bit, but with 2GB of ram that doesn't matter. MRL installed well. OpenCV appears totally borked on 32bit windows even VideoInput does nothing, which is a shame. So far I've got it hooked to the right port arduino with ProgramAB hooked to MarySpeech and running the servos via OOB. The whole thing takes a little longer to initialise than my usual laptop, but runs fast enough once it is up.

The box is a little too large to fit in the head space without a lot of modding, but will fit on the back nicely for now.

 

GroG

8 years 11 months ago

Interesting combination bensonofjohn,

2GB of ram is very nice, and ya for Java apps - memory is king ;)

Hmm... OpenCV 32 bit on windows probably can be fixed - we'll add it to the list of things 

Hmm, I was assuming it was Windows 32bit as Kev seems to have it running on his Windows box, but just tried with a 64bit work computer and I get nothing for a usb webcam via VideoInput. OpenCV I get a black screen and a frame rate, the webcam light comes on as well. Maybe I'm missing a step on getting VideoInput to work.

This is a big jump in OpenCV  (major version change) .. so there's likely to be some fallout ...
I've recently gotten a C++ compiler for windows - so that should help us resolve some of the issues...

I've compiled OpenCV 3 on my syste which picks up my onboard camera and works fine with it. So the problem doesn't seem to be in the base OpenCV 3 distribution.

Problem should be solved with latest relase... what was missing is VideoInput.jar... check if you miss it... you can just add it manually or purge the local repo and install all again with the new mrl.jar

 

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