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Re: 2009 Control System Possibility?
I was talking to somebody from WPI a few months ago. The speaker said that the device he had was a prototype of the FIRST control system for 2009.

I got a chance to play with it, it's impressive.

It was based yes, on an AVR and an ARM, though a move from ARM to XScale was to be made. This made it extremely fast. It looks similiar to an Arduino with a breadboard. There are quick connect ports for motor controllers, and a nice breadboard, similiar to the Parallax BOE board.

It was programmable in C, D, Python, Java, and BASIC.
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