[Jared Russell]

I've interfaced with Victors and Spikes from non-IFI microcontrollers before, and it's not too hard. Just control the PWM duty cycle. FIRST will most likely provide easy function calls for this.

Seriously, though, this move could be devastating for FIRST. Years of refinement went into the current OI/RC system, and it finally works well. Throwing all of that out the window makes zero sense to me from a technical point of view (some of my longstanding criticisms of the IFI system notwithstanding).

Hopefully they pull it off. But it's a tall order.