Thread: SparkFun officially supporting FIRST
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Unread 07-01-2015, 14:50
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Re: SparkFun officially supporting FIRST
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Originally Posted by Thad House View Post
I want to believe in the Nav6, but I just don't think we will actually be able to get one. With you guys saying AM is only going to be getting 100 of them, and it has a 5 week lead time, there are not going to be alot of teams getting them, which means we need other options. If it was going to be more available, I would say for sure it would be a better option.
As to the navX, your description of the situation is correct. I'm not even sure our team is going to be able to get them from AndyMark, based upon the demand, the navX MXP's sold out at the Kauai Labs store before team 2465's order was placed.

So we are using the nav6 for our team's robot development.

As to the nav6, we still have about 30 left for sale at KauaiLabs in the online store. We've got them working w/the RoboRio either w/the RS-232 port, or with a USB-serial adapter. Note that not every USB-serial adapter is detected by the RoboRIO Linux OS, so if you go that route, you'd want a more common USB-serial adapter that uses the FTDI Chipset. If you have any more questions on that, please feel free to send me a private message and we can discuss that further.
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