[John Gutmann]

I am not neccessarily saying that the the Stamps are better, but I am saying that from what I have seen they can do basically everything we need to do. Maybe not so much in the upcoming years but right now from my expirience I would say they would run fine.

My dev. board isn't a stamp it is an atmel AVR. Also again I am not saying to give the teams a dev board and expect them to do anything. But I mean how hard would it be to take a socket for a 40 PDIP and create the neccessary ports for it on a PCB. I am not saying it needs no engineering but I also dont think it needs a whole heck of alot to get the job done. (then again what do I know I am only in highschool, feel free to bash me for this comment.)

As for your challenge. Sure. what the heck it is summer and I have nothing better to do. Just to set some rules for this new system I will try to develop what do you want. How about everybody who want to helps or has an idea as to what I could include in this system to make it something that they think a majority of FIRST teams could use or want in a system to post here.

I will work on a simple one that does everything that the IFI system does right now and make periodic updates on everything.

<edit> Due to me being poor right now. and not having the money to prototype something like this it will have to wait for a little bit. I do not currently have the mony to put into the right kind of socket to mount the chip I was looking at to a PCB let alone my dev board.

Though I will still do conceptual planning and post it on here</edit>