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Unread 03-05-2006, 00:33
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Re: IFI Control System (OI/RC) - The Future???

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Originally Posted by DeepWater
Actually, I think the IFI systems are used outside of the FIRST community by those other destructive robot competitions like Battlebots. The IFI control systems seem to be discontinued all together according to Robot Marketplace: http://www.robotcombat.com/marketplace_ifirobotics.html

It just makes me wonder what is going on with IFI and what this means for 2007.
These are the Isaac controllers, the ones FIRST used prior to the FRC ones (2003 and earlier). They probably discontinued these because the FRC chips are significantly more powerful while probably not being too much more expensive, plus the mini robot controller (aka the EDU-bot controller) came out at the same time they stopped with the Isaac system since it can probably give all the same capabilities in a smaller package that's relatively cheap.

I know our team was at least one of those guilty of overloading last year's memory for code. After failing to get the camera to work very well and then running out of memory, we dropped it from our program last year. It cleared up about half the memory.