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Re: RoboRIO MXP Breakout

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Originally Posted by FrankJ View Post
One element of the 2015 approval was that it had to be produced by a "Vendor". Presumably as a COTs device with stock available for purchase by other teams. So a board made by a team would not meet the approval criteria unless they had a vendor make in sufficient quantities so that it was available to any team that wanted it. Rephrase from Frank's blog: "myRIO Expansion Port - What's the Deal?" 9/23/14
And even this plan didn't work with the NavMXP. Given the amount of navigation that was required to score autonomous points, we would have purchased a couple last year had there been any in stock for more than a few milliseconds. (OK, I slightly exaggerated on the time window.)
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