PPT from seattle NI training

[comphappy]

Here is the power point from the seattle WA NI training that happened today,
http://www.daqman.com/presentations/firstwa.pdf
I saw some interesting things in there.

[Branden Ghena]

Thanks for sharing the information. I found the slide show pretty interesting, especially the possibility for robot to robot wireless communication.

[Madison]

It's interesting that slide 16 intimates that there will be only four robots competing at a time.

Does anyone know if there's a hardware limitation that requires that only four robots compete at a time? I can understand that this information may simply be incorrect -- and I somewhat hope that it is -- as reducing throughput by 33% is exactly counter to the notion of increasing return on investment that people have been talking about so much around here.

[Roboj]

It's interesting that slide 16 intimates that there will be only four robots competing at a time.

Does anyone know if there's a hardware limitation that requires that only four robots compete at a time? I can understand that this information may simply be incorrect -- and I somewhat hope that it is -- as reducing throughput by 33% is exactly counter to the notion of increasing return on investment that people have been talking about so much around here.

As one of the authors of the slide, I can say for certain it was just an oversight. As far as I know, the number of robots on the field isn't planning on changing.

[Madison]

As one of the authors of the slide, I can say for certain it was just an oversight. As far as I know, the number of robots on the field isn't planning on changing.

Awesome. Thank you for the clarification.

[Mark McLeod]

There are other mistakes on the FRC Topology chart as well.
Spikes, Solenoids and Compressors are feeding into the analog sidecar, while relays come out of the 9472 :)

There's a better version here (http://decibel.ni.com/content/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/102-1750-4-1487/FRC+Topolgoy.jpg), but it also thinks there are 4 robots.

Typos are a normal human condition...

[comphappy]

Typos are a normal human condition...

which is why we build robots?