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Re: paper: The HERO for FRC
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Originally Posted by marshall View Post
  • It's cheaper.
  • It's supported now (not that the cRIO isn't but it wasn't for us... the 2CAN LabVIEW drivers/libraries for the cRIO are kinda busted now).
  • It's cheaper.
  • It doesn't require a driver station to run.
  • It's a lot simpler to wire up.
  • It allows you to use Talon SRXs with it via CAN.
  • It's cheaper.

Yeah, there is a lot to like.
I'm noticing a theme....

In all seriousness, that is good to know. My team has only disassembled our 2014 robot and we built a demo bot for kids out of the chassis, but we've been stripping the control systems off of all but the demo bot and this year's, so we could use some cheap control systems.

We would have no need for CAN capabilities, so could the price point be dropped even further by using Sparks?
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