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Unread 08-08-2013, 10:54
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Re: NI Week Athena Announcement and Q&A Panel

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Originally Posted by magnets View Post
A gyro would have trouble if a team decided to mount their control system vertically, or if they didn't put the controller in the center of the robot. Every year we get these accelerometers in the KoP, and I still have no idea what to do with them. We have like 10.

Also, I feel like the 500% increase in processing power was a bit unnecessary, but it's going to be cool to work with a dual core ARM Cortex processor.
USB Host + ARM processing power... Definitely not unnecessary. Now you can hook your Kinect directly to the robot controller and do image processing.
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