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Re:My robotic basketball hoop won't let you miss [video] by ChuckNorris89 on Monday May 11, 2020 @10:39AM (#23142611)
He's using python for the Kinect image processing and balistics math so it's easy to implement in windows. If you move to a RTOS you lose these luxuries.
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Re:My robotic basketball hoop won't let you miss [video] by ncmncm on Monday May 11, 2020 @05:52PM (#23147538)
Python is also available to run in microcontrollers, RTOS or no OS at all.
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Re:My robotic basketball hoop won't let you miss [video] by TimMeade on Monday May 11, 2020 @11:31AM (#23143194)
python available on linux or macos.
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Re:My robotic basketball hoop won't let you miss [video] by schwap on Monday May 11, 2020 @11:45AM (#23143358)
Yes and...? Neither Linux (normally) or MacOS an RTOS, what would he gain by switching to them?
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Re:My robotic basketball hoop won't let you miss [video] by donatj on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @05:16AM (#23152015)
In the case of Linux you could entirely eliminate almost everything else using CPU time such as window management in a way not really practical for Windows.
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Re:My robotic basketball hoop won't let you miss [video] by djsumdog on Monday May 11, 2020 @01:14PM (#23144454)
There'd be some advantage if:

* you have Linux Kinix Python libs and drivers.

* You can use a very minimal Linux distro that starts little to nothing else up

It'd probably be better than running on Windows, but still not as nice as running real time, or close to real time (e.g. having a small C, Go or Rust program that runs on a custom Linux image where it runs as init)

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