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Re: [FTC]: What do you wish FTC would...
I've been told (not sure I was suppose to be told, but so were many others, so it's out there) that the NXT/Samantha is done, that they are moving on to something else, and the announcement will be made "any day now". Of course, that was a month ago, so maybe something has changed. I'd expect to see it at St. Louis. I wouldn't have said anything at all about this, except that it's obvious that the NXTs are at the end of their support cycle and need to be replaced, and that the replacement might not be EV3s because I think we would have seen some field tests with EV3s by now. FLL will be starting their 3rd year with EV3s in August, so why not FTC? Watching the RobotC code change logs, it seems like work is still heavily underway to support the EV3 -- there are a ton of changes every week -- and it does not seem to be ready, yet. So maybe they are going a different direction.
The static thing is horrible and killed our robot multiple time at the regional championship despite making sure we followed the wiring, surge protector, and other suggestions very closely AND that it didn't happen at two previous competitions nor on our own field. Maybe the humidity was really low that day -- I don't know. It happened to at least one other team that we know of as well.
I didn't mind purchasing the field kit - it saved a lot of time and ensured were using the standard configuration -- but the price didn't seem justified for the cheap quality of the materials. We did share it with multiple teams, so I may have felt different if I was trying to support one team and couldn't share the cost.
Last edited by BSV : 23-02-2015 at 13:50.
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