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Originally posted by Marc P.
If custom processor boards were allowed, there must be some standardization enforced, or what's to stop a team from showing up with a 3.06 ghz Pentium 4 based robot? Meanwhile a rookie team shows up using the standard Stamp... as far as autonomous mode goes, who has a distinct advantage?
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Being able to get 250FPS on Quake 3 isn't going to allow your robot to do backflips on the field. Having a processor running that fast isn't going to help that much, because a decent programmer can do everything you could dream of in PBASIC with the sensory inputs that are available to us.
Also, you can buy a AMD Athlon for $50 including shipping (I just checked pricewatch.com) and there aren't too many teams who can't afford that if it really would help.
Which isn't to say I think that allowing teams to plug in their own chip is a good idea, but I wouldn't mind a hardware upgrade. Wouldn't mind it staying the same, either.