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Originally Posted by chris31
The current radios also arent that small. Unless they redesigned them i think it might be a little hard to get them on the RC board.
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I'm pretty sure the radio modems are big for a reason, I believe, is mostly so they can get better reception. If you heard anything about Nextfest, they had a lot of reports of radio interference, and that is not good if you want to have matches that are fair. Another reason could be it's cheaper to have them larger, they keep Kit prices really reasonable, so size might be a sacrifice.
Anyway, I'm willing to predict a new controller available from IFI in the new future, whether or not it's for FIRST or not is a question. The only controller you can buy from IFI right now is the
Mini Robot Controller, so who knows. They discontinued the Isaac Controller line, and they look remarkably similar to the FIRST controllers. Who knows, maybe there was some business reasoning for that.
If there is a new system, I'd say it is going to be very close to the current
Vex microcontroller