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Cool Re: [OCCRA]: A Big Robot Programming Question

Seems like your Robot Controller may be belly up. Continue development with FRC robot controller until you receive an answer about "officially" substituting the 2006 FRC controller for the 2004-5 FRC robot controller from McIntyre/Martus.
The first competition is one week away.

FYI. The primary difference between both controllers is program/variable memory. In the case of OCCRA controls, typically the team's use just the base software program and there really isn't any advantage to using a newer 2006 controller. If OCCRA were to replace a broken FRC controller, we would most likely borrow a 2004/5 FRC controller from a FIRST team because this hardware is now obsolete for future FIRST competitions (in 2009 the replacement control system is cRIO, National Instruments). If 2004/2005 controller is not available, we would similarly substitute a newer 2006-2008 model with more program/variable memory.
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