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Originally Posted by Gdeaver
I'm curious as to why there is a need for a powerful coprocessor. I can see using a small PIC for a sensor that requires I2Cc or SPI interface since we don't have access to the hardware on the robot controller. This year the camera certainly didn't overwhelm the processor. There are more limitations in the actual camera hardware and firmware. So why the need for a powerful
coproc? Are our games complex enough to justify one?
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If your going to go through the effort of adding one, why not make it forwards-compatible? Sure, you might not need 400mhz of computing speed now, but what about in two years.. Wouldn't it then be a waste to have to redevelop everything?