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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.
Which, really, is the crux of my point. The cRIO costs roughly double what a Vex Cortex costs. For most teams, that's a crappy value, since the vex cortex could do the job adequately for 99% of teams.

With only 2 cRIOs, dedicated to a current competition bot and a practice bot, you have nothing to run past robots on for demos. Most teams like to keep at least one, and ideally all of their past robots in operational condition.
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