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Re: 2009 Control System Possibility?

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Originally Posted by Golto View Post
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.
I highly doubt there will be a breadboard on the new control system, at least not in the way most of us vision one. There's a reason they are used on the lab bench and not in production. I can see modular motor control and misc I/O lines, running on some modern bus.

Also I would be very surprised if you could program the robot in Python, Java, or Basic. If there was an OS with interpreters and a control API, then MAYBE this is a possibility, but I highly doubt it. That is very scary from a support/infrastructure point of view. I would expect to see some kind of visual programming language (something similar to easyC, Labview, Simulink, etc..) after the success of easyC in FRC and FTC.
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