As the flight simulator progresses, the program has became increasingly developed. The Pi 3 can not keep up with rendering solid faces, leading to an unnavigable decrease in fps from a range of ~74fps when no faces are rendered to ~4fps when the projection area is full of the faces at the graphic entity density present in my graphics. GL_LINES brings it up to a minimum of ~10fps with a 14fps average. Even this is poor.
The Pi won't do, certainly not at least until they bring out a Pi with a spec comparable to a modern PC. Now I have to look at two options.
The others working on the simulator suggested building a PC and loading it with a Linux OS. On the other hand, it appears this: http://www.nvidia.com/object/jetson-tk1-embedded-dev-kit.html or http://www.nvidia.com/object/jetson-tx1-dev-kit.html would function like a powerful of extremely powerful Pi respectively.
The problem with the PC is the IO, I need digital IO that:
Works with Linux
Is controllable with a C++ library
Is compatible with the architecture of the CPU (if necessary)
I assume that this will be some IO unit that attaches in the place of an audio card. It appears national instruments has lots, but I have no idea which one is the right choice.
The second option, the premade units, which are actually development kits, look to be a more convenient option. But I do not even know if these are what I want. The tx1 is within our budget (£5000), but I could only have one, get it wrong and that is it. The tk1 on the other hand, I could try that and get another one, but I would prefer not so I would be putting reverse protection diodes and buffers on all of the IO lines.
There is also the Odroid-xu4, another option I am looking into, which looks like a suitable upgrade.
I may have not picked any useful options here, has anybody else used some other computing unit more powerful than the Pi that also has GPIO?
The Pi won't do, certainly not at least until they bring out a Pi with a spec comparable to a modern PC. Now I have to look at two options.
The others working on the simulator suggested building a PC and loading it with a Linux OS. On the other hand, it appears this: http://www.nvidia.com/object/jetson-tk1-embedded-dev-kit.html or http://www.nvidia.com/object/jetson-tx1-dev-kit.html would function like a powerful of extremely powerful Pi respectively.
The problem with the PC is the IO, I need digital IO that:
Works with Linux
Is controllable with a C++ library
Is compatible with the architecture of the CPU (if necessary)
I assume that this will be some IO unit that attaches in the place of an audio card. It appears national instruments has lots, but I have no idea which one is the right choice.
The second option, the premade units, which are actually development kits, look to be a more convenient option. But I do not even know if these are what I want. The tx1 is within our budget (£5000), but I could only have one, get it wrong and that is it. The tk1 on the other hand, I could try that and get another one, but I would prefer not so I would be putting reverse protection diodes and buffers on all of the IO lines.
There is also the Odroid-xu4, another option I am looking into, which looks like a suitable upgrade.
I may have not picked any useful options here, has anybody else used some other computing unit more powerful than the Pi that also has GPIO?
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