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Re: NI Week Athena Announcement and Q&A Panel

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Originally Posted by Racer26 View Post
An interesting.. <snip> ...with some overhead for control comms.
OK, so which technology are you suggesting be used instead of "unreliable" 802.11?
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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.
Team 1676 is very proud to be in the 1%. A Cortex just would not let us run our robot the way we do. Unless you think maybe we should dumb it all down for the lowest common denominator?
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The fact that it's only half the price blows me away. I would expect it to be way less given the capabilities. Talk about a crappy value. Par for the course I guess.
Requoted for truth. The IFI 'real price' wasn't cheap, either.
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