I'd love to see a control system in which all of the processing is done on the OI by a laptop..... Meaning all of your code is run there, etc. Then all you need onboard is a little encoder for all of your sensors which gets transmitted to the OI. Then you are pretty much limitless as to what you can do with your bot, and how much processing power you have. Imagine controlling your robot using your mouse and keyboard!
Perhaps an operating system (some *inx) that is a standard among FIRST. You need this operating system installed on your laptop for it to be able to compete. Then you can write code for this OS, and the OS runs it in a nice, controlled manor. Then you can write drivers for devices, etc. Kinda moving away from PIC technology into something more modern.....
Then imagine the possibilities. People of the CD and FIRST community writing programs which interface with each other (for alliance feedback between robots). The the computer can automatically decide what the best course of action is....
Then imagine totally autonomous robots!!!!!! ZOMG!!! I think this is the ultimate goal... and doing something like this would be the next step toward it....
OK, I'm getting ahead of myself.... but I think it would be cool
Jacob