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Unread 25-01-2005, 08:33
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Re: reprogram during a competition

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Originally Posted by russell
I might be totally missing something, but like jgannon says it takes (me at least) way more than 1.5 seconds to download a program to the RC. More like 1.5 minutes. And why dont you simply do the processing on something else (how much does a 386 cost?) and just use the RC for I/O?
He brings up a very good point. I believe that in 2003 the Wildstang 111 robot had a Motorola processor on it to do all of the calculations and processing, and the RC itself would be used for only a little bit of the program and the I/O. Go to the Wildstang website and click on "Stang PS" for a bit more information.
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