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Re: Control System Design Contest Proposal

Following up the direction this topic spawned from...

Our team successfully deployed a netbook laptop with the screen removed, the original battery, and an SSD at a competition on our robot. It was connected to more than one USB webcam. Further, we did drive right over the bump in the field repeatedly with the laptop inside the robot.

I post this as a community service as this issue has been danced around before. The only concern we encountered was the cost restriction applicable to the item under the rules. We were able to satisfy the officials in that regard.

The laptop did not replace the cRIO, but was connected to the Ethernet segment on the robot.

In short, you can legally put a laptop on your robot (within the applicable restrictions) with the laptop's original battery, but you can't replace the cRIO or the related power controlling functions with it. You can, however, instruct the cRIO to do things with those power controlling functions from the laptop.

Have fun...and let's see how long it is before someone starts using NVidia's CUDA technology for something.

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