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Re: Sasquatch Robot Controller powered by Arduino

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Originally Posted by nyaculak View Post
I am very excited about this proposed controller. I really hope we use this for the new control system. I currently have a RobotOpen shield, which I plan to start using after the upcoming build season. It would be really exciting to see the (expensive) cRIO being replaced by a cheaper, open source controller.

I was reading the proposal request from FIRST, and it seems that the new control system will be required to support at least two languages (at least one being a visual language). I expect you to use the native Arduino-C language and environment. What are your plans on the visual language? I found an Arduino and LabView bundle on Sparkfun a little while ago.

For the future, I think it may be worthwhile developing an image-processing board that is made to work nicely with the Sasquatch. My team likes to use the Beagle products for our image processing. I believe something that falls in between the BeagleBone and the BeagleBoard should be powerful enough for the image processing that occurs on the FRC level.
Where did you find the control system proposal? I couldn't find it with a quick google.
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