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Re: NI roboRIO

It'd be a maintenance/troubleshooting nightmare to permit two different control systems on the field at the same time.
And after all that expense NI/FIRST is going to to donate the new system to every team.
Not to mention the conflicting directions on how to hook everything up.

We'll be using our old cRIOs the same way we use our old IFI controllers-running old robots for demos/practice/prototyping.
They will still be useful as programming training resources, since they use the same or similar code.
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