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Re: NI Week Athena Announcement and Q&A Panel

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Originally Posted by evanperryg View Post

My team knows, dead certain, that you can run an FRC bot as effectively off Vex as off of the cRio. In fact, we have our entire 2012 bot wired into a cortex and it works perfectly.
While I do agree that the vex cortex is probably closer to an optimal controller than the cRIO was, it is not a replacement for the cRIO/roboRIO.
The vex controller can't do image processing, it can't be programmed in LV or java, and it doesn't have an ethernet port or a CAN port. It also doesn't have an FPGA. While it may be a substitute for 99% of FRC robot controllers, there are definitely teams who do need the extra stuff.
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