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Re: New Robot Control System!
I'm glad FIRST is getting a head start on this, even still, I'm worried that this timeline is too tight. 20 months of development time on a project of this nature is not much at all. Consider that the 2007 IFI radios were under development for over two years. Many of you may recall that they began field testing a revision of these radios at IRI in 2005.
The control system is the make or break part of the FRC. Before joining FIRST, I was part of a competition that had many control system issues. The result was a competition that very unprofessional and definitely uninspiring. Let's hope that the migration to a new system doesn't lead us down this road.
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