Buying the 2009 control system
 

I think it would be great if FIRST would do this.

As soon as the reduced cost CompactRIO becomes available, teams can buy it from FIRST.
when we get to the kickoff, the teams that have bought their control system, would not pay the price of the cRIO and use the one that they bought earlier.

Re: Buying the 2009 control system
 

brilliant!

this sounds like a great idea!
it'd be much better to be able to buy it ahead of time, instead of waiting till the crammed 6 weeks of build

Re: Buying the 2009 control system
 

Hopefully, FIRST will do something like what they did with the IR board this year, and send it out to us early. What better present than a new RC?

Re: Buying the 2009 control system
 

Aye, the most innovative robots will come from students that know all the capabilities of the system, and know how to use it.
I would like to see it handed out early and for all teams, but chances are that would be too expensive, plus there are issues with shipping to all the teams fairly (knowing all the problems with distributing through shipping, some teams getting none, at least right away, some getting two).

At the very least, I expect good, extensive documentation to come out beforehand.

Re: Buying the 2009 control system
 

i would liek to see it haded out early mainly case we really only have 2 people to do electrical work on our team so were gonna be scrabling around to ge everything done

Re: Buying the 2009 control system
 

It would be nice to get it early and we're probably going to have an extra controller any ways for the robotics class or for our personal testing

Re: Buying the 2009 control system
 

I would love to get it early as I am the ONLY electrical person on my team and I would love extra time to figure it out.


Matthew
MorTorq 1515

Re: Buying the 2009 control system
 

I think it would be a terrible blunder to not sell it at the same time.

I'd assume many teams would want to buy a second controller right away for a practice bot.

Re: Buying the 2009 control system
 

According to this post on Bill's blog, the issue is with the delivery of parts. In a perfect world, they'd have 3000 of everything waiting for the software to be finalized and they'd ship and sell everything at the same time.

Since it sounds like they are waiting on parts, I'd much rather them start shipping as soon as possible, and wait until there is an extra supply to sell team's second system.

Re: Buying the 2009 control system
 

Good Point, my original post was worded a little differently than what I had intended as well. By "same time" I meant around kickoff. I realize now that was a terrible choice of words.