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Originally Posted by RyanN
Has anyone considered that FIRST may be moving to Parallax. If anyone remembers, the 2003 and older controllers used BASIC Stamp (I know until 2000, before that I'm not sure) which had a Parallax programmer. I just went to the Parallax website and found that they now have Transceivers that have the ability to control our robots. And recently they developed a new processor called the Propeller. It basically has 8 CPUs inside of it allowing it to multi task. I'm not sure of the programming language, but Parallax seems to have the right stuff for our robots. I will keep this in mine for the 2009 season, unfortunately I won't be in high school after 2008. This is just an idea, so I'm not saying that this is happening by anything I said, but it is a possibility.
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There are a LOT of systems out there now days that FIRST may be considering. A system that I have mentioned before that is cool is the QWERK developed by charmed labs. The current version developed for CMUs Robotics Institute has all of the motor control built onto the interface so I would presume that the power for this system, as is, would not be sufficient for FIRST current draws by motors. Possibly such a system would have a daughter board add on that could handle larger currents off the board much as does the IFI system with the Victor SC and Spike Relays.
So I am in the anxious mode but I am content on waiting to hear something official from FIRST
