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Originally Posted by Donut
Six limit switches aren't that bad to program, are they?
This sounds interesting as a "leveling the playing field" option for autonomous modes. I'm not sure how bad that price tag is though; I'll have to see what sensors are included with that before I get really excited over this.
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Haha I guess not
Now that I think about it, the $300 cost included development tools (which you wouldn't need, unless you really wanted to play around). The actual cost for a team that would just use our firmware would be under $225. The development board we use (STK500) is about $80. Since the source code will be freely available the more technical-minded teams might be more inclined to purchase their own devel board. A cheap AVR programmer could be made for $10 in parts, but the STK really is the best solution.
Also note that we won't be re-selling the parts. As of now a parts list will be available, with detailed assembly instructions. Therefore there is no overhead.
EDIT: The more I think about it, we could probably design this to accomodate cheaper components. The current price tag includes decently high resolution items, so it might be possible to make it more economically viable. We'd have to see what the price/performance tradeoff is.