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Are you saying that FIRST will send the new RC as soon as we pay the registration?
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Not quite. At a New Control System seminar I went to this past weekend, they were saying towards the end of November it will be shipping. Mind you, they were one or two degrees separation from the source, but that is probably the closest you'll get to an answer. It may be sooner, or maybe the package will be incomplete -- there are still things in production. (They had to take some of the components from WPI to ship to the Beta-testers, that's how tight supplies are.)
EricH is correct, though: You won't get
anything if you aren't registered.
The programming preview was great, by the way. LabView (graphical programming, like EasyC was) or C/C++ (text programming, like MP-Lab). Either one has it's ups and downs, but everyone gets both in multiple copies, so it'll be a tough choice. (The PC vs Mac debate.) The good thing is you can use both (not together, though).
Libraries for everything, no fussing with obscure details to get sensors to work. And a real instruction book! I am actually looking forward to a good programming game at Kickoff.
I want to thank the WPI crew for working to make this all possible.