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Re: NI releasing/designing new controller for FRC

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Originally Posted by dtengineering View Post
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?
My first robot used an Intel 8748 as the CPU. 64 Bytes of RAM...WooHoo.
This was cutting edge at the time.



Despite the modest hardware, we could do some pretty cool stuff...Sonar ranging, odometry, programmable course input, full autonomous functionality, etc. This was more complex than many FRC robots today.
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