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Originally Posted by dtengineering View Post
Based on my observations for the majority of FRC teams an Arduino... and I mean an UNO, not even a Mega or Due, would be more than sufficent to meet their programming needs.

The vast majority of teams would have difficulty convincing me that they really needed more processing power than a Due could provide.

Back in my day a 1MHz 6510 CPU was just a good excuse to learn some assembler! What do you kids need all this new-fangled gadgetry for anyway? It just makes you lazy! Sheesh.... grump grump grump.

(Where's a balding, greying smiley when you need one?!?)

Jason
Except for that whole image processing thing...or all of the libraries that are needed. Arduinos don't have THAT much memory to put robust enough code on.

Think of all the stuff WPILib has in it. None of that would be available just because of memory restrictions.