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Originally Posted by Covey41
This topic is less than 3 hours old and the Chief Delphi community is complianing already:
Let's not forget the 2007 radios! (No cell phones near the radio towers.)
I don't care who designed it, or who makes it, NO ONE makes anything perfect the first time, or for that matter everytime.
Lets disprove a new saying overherd at the VIP reception in Atlanta:
"FIRST - Technolgy building egos"
The process just started, give them a chance!
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First off, I don't think anyone is complaining. We are just identifying difficulties which will need to be addressed. It may come as a shock to someone without a team but it makes it very difficult to build a program at a school when drastic things change from year to year. Over the past couple years (05+) there have been some major consistencies which increased the quality of the robots across the board. Things like the kit chasis and transmission along with easyC gave teams without engineering support the ability to make decent machines. Now as someone who has been in FIRST longer then I have you have seen things change more over the years with both good and bad results. The overall trend is to fix things that need improving like moving from the FIRSt built robot control system to the Pbasic IFI system and then making the change to the C IFI system. Each one of those changes was big and they had their problems but the structure was there to overcome. I have no idea what they are looking at or who would build it I just know that change can cause unwarranted problems. I have faith that whatever gets built will work and the community will adapt, I just hope that the changes are being made for the correct reasons like improving technology or making things easier for teams and not fed by other private agendas.
As for your quote about technology egos, without context it doesn't really seem to apply to this situation unless you have some other information about a new control system you would like to share.