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Re: New FTC Platform

There are many good things about the Lego controller. There are many programming environments. Robot C has built in debugging, the Labview plugin can introduce students to labview and instrumentation. The distributed architecture can allow students to lean processor to processor communications. The platform is expandable. IFI limited the VEX platform by not exposing and supporting comunication busses. The only question is can FIRST put everything togeter in an economical package.
What I would like to see is NI develope a State machine block. I've been playing with Cypress PSOC Express and I'm impressed with thier implementation of a graphical state machine tool. This would allow the students to think in terms of robot behavior and the state machine concept with out the complexitity of the low level implementation. The First platform has the potential to be better as long as its not a budget buster.
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