SBC-FITPC2

[Alan Marconett]

Anyone using or familiar with the SBC-FITPC2?

 

http://compulab.co.il/products/sbcs/sbc-fitpc2/

 

Very small, Atom 1.6 GHz processor, 1GB DDR2. 

 

Might be just the way to read the HokuYo LiDAR!

 

Alan

[Alex Bravo]

I'm using one with ROS, but I don't have a Hokuyo.

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[KM6VV]

Thanks, that was my next question! And where did you buy it?

How much can you implement (and how) under ROS? Write in C?

How much do you have implemented, what kind of functions? I've found
some of the Wiki data, But I'm really looking for a simple
implementation to study first.

Thanks for the quick reply!

Alan KM6VV

[Alex Bravo]

I got it on eBay for < $200.

With ROS, a _lot_ of things are already implemented by others. Mostly in C++ and Python.

Ros.org is really worth spending a few days at (or weeks :-). Their tutorials are great. You do need to give it some time to sync in.

I'm mostly using FitPC2 with Turtlebot right now.

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[Wes Thierry]

what version of ubuntu is the ros/turtlebot running.. seems some things in ros are broken in 12.04.....

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[Alex Bravo]

I tried using 12.04 with Fuerte, but had problems. So I went back to 11.10 and Electric.

[KM6VV]

Wow, that's a good deal. I've just started looking, and I have more
research to do. I'll work through the tutorials. Yeah, weeks is more
like it.

Alan KM6VV

[Patrick Goebel]

On 06/21/2012 08:14 PM, Alex Bravo wrote:
>
> I tried using 12.04 with Fuerte, but had problems. So I went back to
> 11.10 and Electric.
>

Ditto. I wasted an entire day "upgrading" to 12.04LTS only to go back
to 11.10. And most of the trouble was not even ROS-related. This was
just my experience--perhaps others are having better luck.

--patrick

[Wes Thierry]

32 or 64 bit?

[Patrick Goebel]

Good question--I think it was 32-bit.

--patrick

[blackstag]

Most if not all ROS base packages and stacks are ready for 12.04 in my experience. Upgrading can be a pain in the ass and require uninstalling ROS and reinstalling it. If you are planning on using it on a turtlebot you will currently need to pull from source the turtlebot changes as of the last time I checked the changes have not pushed all the way up. I have a normal Turtlebot running 12.04 and fuerte and a roomba 510 conversion all the changes i needed to make it happen are pushed to source I think, If not its most definitely posted in the bug patches I posted. Then you have all the things other people have done that you maybe using, well that stuff may not be ready. Quite a few things changed in fuerte and even more will change in groovy most of which requires some  changes for packages/stacks that were running on diamondback or electric. So basically the core is ready all the stuff in the extremities needs to be adapted which is up to those maintainers to do so. 

[Alan Marconett]

Wasn’t there an HBRobotics lecture on ROS recently?  Anyone remember when?

 

I managed to load Ubuntu on an older IBM notebook computer, I’ll try ROS on it before I find and order a SBC-FITPC2.

 

Any suggestions?  ROS.org?  11.10 Electric? 

 

Thanks!

 

Alan