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Here is what I have heard.
The processor will no long block for the radio, which will make the processing speed much faster. The current Basic Stamp will wait until the radio receives a message, then allow the processing of the message. The new processor will take the values last message that the radio received if the radio did not receive something new.
The user processor will have direct access to the Robot Controller Inputs. They will not be read through the serin (or serin type of command), they will look more like the Operator Interface LEDs, where writing a bit to OUT8 will turn on the light.
I'm hoping the direct access to the Inputs will mean that we can use two of them for software interrupts. The interrupts can be used to poll encoders to tell how far the robot has gone.
I've also heard the language is going to be C as well. The processor will probably be a Microchip PIC chip with somesore of boot loader so that the firmware code can be written to the chip without a hardware programmer.
-Jim Wright
Team 949
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