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Re: Who used Driver Station for Vision?

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Originally Posted by techhelpbb View Post
A few people warned us this year about the netbook we used and with proper mounting there are plenty of examples of our robot smashing over the bump in the center of the field at full throttle. We did that in practice on our own field and on the real field literally well over 150 times. No issues. Course we did have an SSD in it.
I think you misunderstood me. I was (in a way agreeing with you and) saying that the cRIO is rated for much more extreme conditions than we would see in FRC, and I agree that (with an SSD) laptop hardware would likely be fine.

Personally, I would love to see laptop-based control systems; my post was to point out reasons why FIRST is unlikely to adopt them.

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Also doesn't FIRST allow you to use other laptops for the driver's station and doesn't that create to some extent the same support issue?
The rules have allowed for custom driver stations in the last couple of years, and that is encouraging that they might open various parts of the control system up more in the future. However, the difference between the robot controller and the driver station is that if the driver station has an error then the e-stop can still be pressed to shut off the robot. If the robot controller has an error, then any methods of remote deactivation (at least that currently exists) fail along with it.
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