Thread: Using an Arduino as a robot controller (2010 and beyond?)
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Re: Using an Arduino as a robot controller (2010 and beyond?)
Leav - Good Question.

You could make an IFI-equivalent board from the Arduino, with a bit of work. You would need to recreate the work IFI has already done for you to do so. For one-off hack work, this is relatively easy to do. For a professional deployment to thousands of students that works as reliably as the IFI system does, this is hard.

The IFI system is based on Microchip's PIC processors, the Arduino is based on Atmel's ATmega168s. At the 50,000 foot level, these processors compete in the same field (sorta mostly kinda - close enough for the purposes of this post). One could easily argue why one is superior to the other, and either side could be right.

You certainly don't need the extra of the cRIO to drive a robot around - As Art said, you most certainly can drive a robot with an Arduino. You just won't be able to get it to do all of the cool things the cRIO can do.
Last edited by EricVanWyk : 17-10-2008 at 16:08. Reason: Leav already knows why the cRIO is happy.
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