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Re: Control System Design Contest Proposal

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Originally Posted by compwiztobe View Post
I see no mention of a system that is quick to boot and establish communications. For whatever the reasons may be (there a few threads discussing it), the current 802.11 scheme takes a while and has plenty of issues besides. So if that means scrapping 802.11 for a proprietary radio link IFI-style or modifying the wifi setup to streamline things, whatever. The general requirement is quick boots and quick and rock solid connections.

Also it'd be nice if the controller booted faster...
Thanks for reminding me of my single greatest issue with the current control system.

Code needs to download into the system *quickly* and 2 minutes is not quick enough.

It might also be nice if you can download code back from the robot.

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