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Re: pic: 4143 RoboRio expansion card prototypes ordered

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Originally Posted by RyanShoff View Post
The timing of the LED strip protocol is strict enough that it still probably makes sense to offload that to a separate microcontroller.
I'd consider it pretty awful if our severely discounted, dual core 667MHz, ARM, $430 controller with an FPGA can't keep up with a $5 microcontroller, and had timing issues like these.
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