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Originally Posted by Chris_Elston
Danny,
Do you know if "strategic” cRIO controllers could be given to certain mentors in areas of the USA?
For example, I would not mind volunteering to teach a class like this myself say at the Indiana Forums in Kokomo. I could think of several other people like Alan Anderson, Alex from 1024, Josh Hambright and even our own student programmer Nathan House. However, we would need to get our hands on it and learn it first before we could teach others in our own area.
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I'd definitely be interested, but remember I could only tele-mentor most of this comming build season (i'll be in college at UIUC). Thanks for the vote of confidence Chris.
I'm still planning on having a programming week this summer for the guys on our team who will be taking over for me. So far, we're still planning on doing it with the current PIC-based FRC controller, since the concepts still transfer, it's just the way you interact with the hardware that's changing (so far I'm still shooting to work with the Wind River C as opposed to the LabVIEW).
If anyone around our area is interested in attending the summer class (mostly on motion control) i'm having for my team, I think we could handle a few extra friendly faces. It's all tentative for right now.
But anyhow... we are working on getting a compact real-time backplane with the IO/expansion modules first is including... but one thing we aren't doing is paying full price.
And I thought $1195 was bad for the current control system... jeesh!
At any rate, we're trying to get one too... hopefully somebody will have a breakthrough!
-q