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Re: Nearly Officially Official: cRIO Control System To Be Reused
Team 1319 currently has all five of our robots fully assembled. We use them in the community, to teach new students, and for driving practice. We will always have these resources whether or not the new control system is given to us each year. If a rookie team this year does not get a controller thier second year we have an advantage over them both in community outreach and driver training. If FIRST decides not to allow teams to purchase a second controller in 2010 then 2009 rookies will not have a chance to become one of the "have's" they will by default be a have not. If in 2010 and on then they have a choice on what you get in the kit then a rookie has a fighting chance to become a "have". Theoretically a team can get a long with a miniumum of 2 controllers. Although we have been known to show off three robots at a time.
On a side note on the Survey for FIRST they did ask if teams would like to decide what they got in thier kit so that they would not get things that they did not use. Maybe thier plans are already to provide tailored kits to each teams needs.
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