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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
Bragging rights? Giving credit where credit is due? Yes the teams that popularized it deserve credit but the originators should also be acknowledged.
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Meh, I'd let the original teams speak for themselves then if it matters much. As far as I know, 1885 was the first team to use the camera as a visual radar for the drivers using custom-wrapped code from the cRIO in 2009 and a Java display for the driver. We were also the 'first' (I think 357 did it too) to use 4 independently actuated pneumatic linkage modules on the drive train in 2009. But neither fact matters; they were niche ideas meant for that game. Actually, given our last-place OPR at championships in 2009 I dunno that they're facts I'd advertise that we were firsts of, heh.
As for another innovation there's the multi-threaded approach to robot programming (inputs, state processing, and outputs all on separate threads). I don't think we were the first in 2006 since iirc we learned it from 116. Yet in 2008 I talked to several sensor-heavy teams at championships who also did it that way. When did that start? Was it just a natural part of the IFI controller?