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Unread 17-04-2008, 16:17
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Re: NEW 2009 Control System Released

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Originally Posted by ebmonon36 View Post
Chasing down the wires in this picuture: http://first.wpi.edu/FRC/cstechnical.html

It would appear that the victors are connected to the Sidecar
From the tech specs on the sidecar it appears that it provides the pwm drivers and power for the PWM's (when connected to servos). It looks like it may also have 8 relay drivers and 14 TTL GPIO's. In other words, its basically most the present controller except for the $15 PIC.

The SPI which is marked (SPI/I2C) is a mystery. Hopefully this goes to a hardware based SPI and I2C controllers so there can be some hope of $50 instead of $500 sensors.

It's very nice to see friction lock connectors on the PWM. Too bad this didn't extend to the other I/O's. It's for 2009 afterall, hotglue shouldn't be required to keep wires from falling out
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