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Originally Posted by MikeE
I think it's more complete to say that the GDC has stated that it is legal, but they reserve the right to make it impractical 
I wonder if "limitations on the data transfer rate provided by the wireless communication system" will become less onerous throughout the competition season? |
I think most of you do not understand... the data transfer limit is already in place. You will NOT be allowed to stream from the camera directly to the driver's station. As posted a few times in other threads, ALL network traffic other than the robot control & dashboard traffic will be firewalled at the field. This means the only way you can get an image back from the camera is to take the camera data on the CRIO, pack it into the dashboard data structure that is allowed to be sent back, and unpack it at the other end. From what I understand, the amount of data that can be packed into the dashboard packet is a little under 1000 bytes. I don't know offhand how many times per second this packet is sent.
I think a lot of people don't realize (and FIRST has not made this very clear) that you will not be allowed to transmit whatever network traffic you like. You can do it at home for practice, but once you get to the field it will be blocked.