Help in picking a controller
For a school project I'm building the legs of an exo-skeleton, adding in arms later on. It will need to control 4 leg motors (CTRE Talons - PWM) and take signals from these sensors for each motor (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11776) to drive them. Which controller is best suited - Arduino, Propeller, or VEX Cortex (http://www.vexrobotics.com/vex/products/accessories/logic/276-2194.html)
I only have experience programming an Arduino, so which is easiest overall and provide the best performance?
I only have experience programming an Arduino, so which is easiest overall and provide the best performance?
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Since you have experience with Arduino, that might be a good place to start.
For best performance, I would guess the prop would be your best bet.
If you want to do a whole bunch of extra processing besides sensors and actuators, maybe the Cortex would be a good idea.
It all depend on the DETAILS of what you think you want to do. You might consider choosing the processor AFTER you wokr out exactly waht you want to do. But depending on your experience, you might not be able to work out what you want until you've already finished (the first time). So you will probably d have to do it backwards, and start on an arbitrary processor until you get a good handle on what you actually want and how to do it.
In my case, I always start with the prop, as it is very powerful and very flexible, and propforth, as it it very flexible and quick development. After the details of the actual problem are known, its a simple matter of selecting a process that matches the need.