Setting ROS on Odroid-XU4 and Raspberry Pi 2

Odroid-XU4 and Raspberry Pi2 are single board computers which have a low form factor the size of a credit card. These single board computers can be installed in robots and we can install ROS on them.

The main specifications comparison of Odroid-XU4 and Raspberry Pi2 is shown next:

Device

Odroid-XU4

Raspberry Pi 2

CPU

2.0 GHz Quad core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU from Samsung

900 MHz quad core ARM Cortex A7 CPU from Broadcom

GPU

Mali-T628 MP6 GPU

VideoCore IV

Memory

2 GB

1 GB

Storage

SD card slot or eMMC module

SD card slot

Connectivity

2 x USB 3.0, 1 x USB 2.0, micro HDMI, Gigabit Ethernet

4 x USB, HDMI, Ethernet, 3.5 mm audio jack

OS

Android, Ubuntu/Linux ...

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