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Design the entire system so it is easy (and inexpensive) for off season events and individual teams to build their own field controller system, using nothing more than a laptop, a wireless router and an NI USB 6008 or 6009 multifunction IO module or two (ie COTS materials).

Field controller software would be an open source download. Install it and go. Ideally, this would be a Labview App.

This would include built-in monitoring and diagnostics, of course.

With 1500 teams testing it out for 6 weeks we might get a lot of valuable feedback prior to the events themselves ...