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Originally Posted by jjack
I'm not so sure going from serial to usb for the controller ports is all that great.
What if a team wanted to develop a custom controller? This year is a perfect example, many teams made custom controllers to control their shooters. If IFI did change the controller port to usb everyone could just about kiss the days of custom controllers good bye because teams would pretty much be limited to a list of controllers the OI supported. IMHO that takes some of the inventiveness out of FIRST.
I do remember there being a thread similar to this before last year's kick-off and people were saying much of the same things. When kick-off came around the only significant upgrade was the memory boost.
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I agree with you that the game ports need to stay on the OI, they are easy to use and custom controllers are easy.. I am reffering to the SERIAL port used for programming the robot. I think they should change that to USB.. not the Game Ports on the OI