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Re: NI releasing/designing new controller for FRC

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Originally Posted by Oblarg View Post
Can they just make an arduino a FRC-legal robot controller and be done with it?
As Arduino lover myself I can say that would suck. The C-Rio's FPGA is much faster than a Atmega 2560. You would not be able to do on-board vision processing and code would have to be optimized to run quickly. It also would alienate all current FRC programmers (Arduino code is not C++, BTW)
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