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Re: desktop computer on robot?

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Originally Posted by s0crates View Post
My team had the idea to add a desktop computer onto the robot for additional computing power. Ignoring potential weight or power problems, would it be legal to interface it solely with the digital i/o board and other custom circuits?

-jonathan
If you are interested in going this direction you might want to look at a Gumstix.

By FIRST rules, it can read sensors, and do calculations, but cannot directly control any outputs ... the cRIO must do that. Read the sections that EricH pointed out very carefully.
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