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Originally Posted by steven114
Whether you can find rules allowing it or not, the benefits of reprogramming the robot in the middle of the match seem negligible. Much more useful would to be able to not have to hook the laptop up to the robot to program it...
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Our team has been looking at this. We went out and purchased a low profile motherboard with a PII on it and a flash card reader. We then bought a one gig flash card. We're gonna put this setup on the robot if we have the available weight (which it looks like we will this year). At the very least, we are going to use it for blackboxing and programming.
We would have a wireless card on it and run XP. This way we could run remote desktop, trasnfer over the code, and program through an Ad-Hoc network. Granted we would remove the wireless card before matches, but it would be very useful for testing code and quick changes to programming.
Even if the wireless wouldnt be allowed in the Pits (though i dont see how WiFi would interfere) it is still going to be useful for blackboxing and programming during build season.
-Tony K