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The Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight and the Intel Aero systems are going to come in at like $500-$1000. If you want to process camera frames, your price target is a
by amirhirsch 9y ago
The Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight and the Intel Aero systems are going to come in at like $500-$1000. If you want to process camera frames, your price target is a bit untenable for now. You might try to use any old flight controller and a pi with a camera, or a cheap wifi drone like the qr-w100s and doing computer vision over wifi (here's a repo we started for this: https://github.com/SeneCameras/qr-w100s https://github.com/SeneCameras/qr-w100s)
If you're considering crazyflie, Flybrix is a programmable octocopter at $189. We are developing a camera module with onboard processing for optical flow, to release later this year. we are taking extraordinary pains to get a programmable drone with programmable computer vision at a reasonable price point.
- shiftpgdn 9y agoNvidia Jetson TX1/TX2 is available now for right around $400 with 256 CUDA cores 4-8GB of ram and 16-32GB of disk.
- ansible 9y agoThere are drones available and in planning based around the TX1 (and presumably the TX2). Note that because of the power requirements, the drone size is larger.
- nojvek 9y agoI would definitely love to get one based on a TX2. It's the only chip that has enough computing power to do real time image processing, run SLAM and a small CNN at the same time. Would deffo pay 500-1000 for it.