I’ve been cooped up in a hotel room while my wife is slowly getting over complications. Hopefully we leave Friday for home.
However, I did order a few things last night, including an Odroid-XU3 Lite. This is an 8 core ARM system with 2GB RAM. Think of it as a double strength RasPi 2 on steroids. I think it might be able to run some interesting AI software.
I’m hoping to run a version of OpenCog on it and compare this with the NUC. Depending on its size, I may try to use it for a bot based on the Poppet or on my iCreate 2.
I will probably get it next week, depending on when I go to the post office. I still have a list of things to do. I like the Odroid line of boards so far. I’ll see how it goes once I can actually program one.
Any thought from others who use them or people who just have thoughts.
When I see a board that can run Android, my temptation is to go that way because of my familiarity there. Sadly, I think I must force myself over the Linux learning curve hurdle. That’s why I ordered a Pi 2 (not yet arrived), to finally take the plunge. I’m hoping that after that, taking on something like an ODroid won’t be daunting.
It would seem that there are a lot more libraries I can take advantage of on Linux. I hate the idea of Python, or any other tool with the word “script” associated with it. I guess I’ll have to get over it.
I’m considering running the Pi as an appendage to my PC and having the two talk over http in a very loosely coupled way. I’ve wanted to experiment with some distributed brain architectures for my shared brain project. I might try using the Pi as some kind of image processing / localization engine to handle some visual landmark ideas I’ve been having. We’ll see.
Another note about the ODroid…I think something like this or a Jetson could run Anna’s full brain, except for the third party web services…if I was willing to re-write it…again.
it’s a mini cluster on a board. 2Gb ram may be little, but hey, with so much processing power, more ram maybe it’s not necessary. It’s seems made for the purpose of optic recognition. And it has also a competitive price!
They have a very nice RasPi killer, the Odroid-C1. It’s basically almost a Pi clone, but it has 3 ADC lines and runs the quad core at 1.5 GHz.
And, at least in the states, it’s cheaper than the RasPi.
And had I wanted to pay an additional $75 I could have gotten the Odroid-XU3, which has voltage monitoring and runs at 2GHz instead of 1.8 GHz for my Odroid-XU3 Lite.
I may also get the CubiBoard 8 (it has an AllWinner-80 so all the cores are in a single chip. Now imagine something’s with two or four of those chips with some more shared memory. And as long as I’m dreaming, why not add the TK1 chip…
I have to make use of the Raspi B and B+ i already have. One will be used as brain in a robot, the other i’m already using it as FTP server. The bottleneck seems to be the low ram and slow disk access, rather than processor.
I’m also experimenting with opencv for Android, and with it some functions just crash because of slow or overheating processor, which i bet wouldn’t be a problem on Odroid. What it’s even cooler it’s that i could re-use the camera module of raspberry:)
My Odroid XU3 Lite arrived today! I’ve got Odroid!
One interesting thing is this Odroid is just a very tiny bit larger than the RasPi, and I bought the eMMC card (64GB) with Ubuntu installed and I have all the cables so I should be able to put it together very quickly. That it, assuming everything goes right.
I also got the part to fix my 3d printer, so I have to do that first.
I wonder how an Odroid-C1 or RasPi 2 would handle slicing and such for a 3d printer?
Have you had time to test it out? I was looking at the c3 version as a robot controller. I am just playing the field and seeing what I want to go with in the end. This board may make a great nas as well. Between the rpi(s) and pcduino I have, the rpi is winning. The yun is a close seconed, but only good for a heads down controller with a little media streaming.
