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Re: What do YOU want in the Kit of Parts?

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Originally Posted by apalrd View Post
Move everything except the required electrical components and CIM motors to FIRST Choice. Possibly throw in some of the strange new motors as well, but the 550 and Window motors are good candidates for outsourcing to AM or Banebots, with provisions for every team to get the legal amount via FIRST Choice and buy more from Andy/Banebots.
Agreed for veteran teams, not for rookies.


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Originally Posted by apalrd View Post
-Release all software prior to kickoff, via download. With the changes that are made to the library every year, it would be very nice to not have to learn all of them in the days following kickoff, or waste many hours installing LV on all of the team computers after kickoff. Leave out the vision examples if you want, but provide them separately (as a ZIP of just the vision files, not as part of the library or other example code)
Having the software prior to KO would be great. But FIRST will need to find a webhost site that can deliver a lot of gigabyte sized downloads in a hurry. Right now we can't even download the manual immediately after KO. Software would be impossible without FIRST finding a site to host the download.

Considering that Eric Schmidt is on the USFIRST BOD, maybe google can deliver some of that cloud resource to host the download ?
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