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Originally Posted by EricVanWyk
I think we are all curious - what is this co-processor you are adding?
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I don't want to talk about the details, yet. I will say I'm not really going to be doing any processing that requires an external processor, but I now have a functional prototype and I'm concerned about the time involved porting and debugging it on another platform.
If I have time once the new system ships I will probably port it over, but I want to plan for the very likely scenario where I don't have that much time.
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Originally Posted by David Brinza
Past rules will not necessarily apply to what will be allowed in 2009, but "co-processors" and other custom circuits were allowed on robots, subject to cost limits ($400).
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But, before I'd worry about how to interface external processing capability, I'd want to understand what the cRIO system can do itself!
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My current prototype is using a system which is far less than $400, and I'm not concerned that the cRio couldn't handle what I'm doing. I don't believe the time involved to port my current project to the cRio is worth the effort if I can simply interface with my existing hardware using a relativity simple protocol.
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Originally Posted by Joe Ross
There is also an I2C port.
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Didn't know that, thanks.