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Originally Posted by Doug Leppard
To me the biggest programming problem of teams is that the hardware is usually not done until shipping day, thus the programmers usually don't get the machine until that day or at competition.
I do hope they will allow a few teams (like 1902) to have the processor ahead of time if they have the commitment to help others. Our fear is that with a new system in competition there will be many problems and even the experienced teams will be scrambling to make it happen and will not be able to help others.
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I remember NI making available some DAQ hardware to teams that proposed what they'd do with them. What if some combination of FIRST and NI accepted proposals from teams to devise methods of getting the new hardware exposed to as many as possible before the season? With some bias towards geographic diversity (lest all the Mid-Atlantic teams that host off-seasons would have pretty epic odds), you could probably get a lot of teams up to speed pretty quickly, more with the benefit of YouTube/Vimeo/TBA.