Hey, i’m making a robot with a mini itx mother board and most importantly a Kinect v2, running through Open Kinect, and also Stephen hickens Voice rec software.
It has a Celeron processor, and the Kinect needs to get the power from the usb 3.0 port, so the motherboard must have enough juice from the power supply.
Anyone knows what a safe bet for a psu would be, I want it as small as possible of course, not decided for wheels or legs yet
I’ve built electronics before, but never a robot, so please share your knowledge if you have any thoughts.
What are your power requirements for your Mini-ITX ?
The current that the USB port on your Mini-ITX will provide, won’t probably be enough for the Kinect.
You might need to power your Kinect with an external power supply but this won’t be a straight-forward solution and will need some electrical and soldering skills.
To have an idea, here is a tutorial on how to wire a Kinect to a PC.
So what I want is a kind of “battery” that is rechargable and can give ac power to the motherboard, or something like this. I can’t have my robot plugged to the wall all the time.
The motherboard has a 1 x 24 pin ATX Power Connector and (ErP/EuP ready power supply is required),
will that work ?
Unfortunately, we don’t sell any of these products (ITX board and Kinect) therefore we cannot support it.
This being said, the important thing to remember is to power the Kinect separately (not from the ITX board).
You can go through the power requirements of the Kinect and the ITX board to know which battery pack you need (voltage, capacity, maximum discharge current… )
Perhaps someone from the community may be able to provide additional insights.
I studied it a bit and learned that it needs a real pentium processor to work properly. Does yours work well on the board with the Celeron? And how much memory are you using? I read it’s recommended to use 4 Gig or more but haven’t tried it at all.
There are hacks to connect it to a battery directly so you don’t need the special cable to connect it to windows.
Also i wonder if i can use the kinect2 outdoors where is a lot of sunshine (infrared) light.
My robot has a 5V-15A buck transformer for the computers and a 15A 36V battery.
