[ahecht]

Well, the info is now up. The most disappointing change in that the EduRobot can no longer interface with the Operator Interface, it uses an off the shelf hobby R/C instead. This means that the Edu Robot can not be used as easily to simulate the real robot (especially if you have custom controlls you want to test). Autonomous mode becomes a kludge, and running an Edu competition requires drivers to start and stop their robots on the honor system. Plus, a hobby R/C radio and controller can be quite expensive, and since IFI doesn't priovide one, the kit is no longer usable out of the box.

I spoke with Paul at IFI and confirmed that there is no way to control the EduRobot with the OI, and that code that looks for the autonomous mode bit sent by the OI won't work on the Edu Robot. This makes it useless IMHO.