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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
I'd be (moderately) happy if the control system was available around registration time this year AND FIRST shipped control systems to teams early along with the software etc. that they ship out months before the competition. We all saw the lovely results of beta testing ~15 fields with brand new scoring software and hardware AT the regionals in 2005. I really don't want to see the results of beta testing 1500 robot controllers AND field controllers during the 2009 build and competition season.
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My single hope out of all of this is that teams will get the control system as soon as they register. That's about all we can practically ask for.
The good news is, if they fix any beta bugs during a competition it will take mere minutes to implement and mere seconds to upload over the wireless to our bots

Hopefully FIRST is thinking about this framework and will keep a special upload port ready for such bug fixes.