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Re: pic: Thousands of manhours of work... coming '07

Alright let's clear one thing up. This won't be a black box unless you want to completely disregard the included documentation. The whole device will most likely be released in the form of schematics, source code, and documentation on the protocol and wiring, as well as comments in the code. All the programming on our side is handled with freely available open source tools that even come with a windows installer. So it'll be pretty easy for teams to modify it to work for them if they wish, but we're hoping the default set up will be useful for most teams.

I'm also wondering if teams would be interested in a menu-driven 4 line by 20 character LCD for set up, calibration and possibly "instant feedback" of the robots status (Tach and such) similar to what Tom described for 195s system. This has to be designed in due to the nature of the LCDs control system. Hopefully it won't drive the price up a whole lot either.

So what's the word on that?
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