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Simulink
Actually, you could use Simulink and the Real Time Workshop from the Mathworks to auto-generate your code for you if you're a real RTW nut (you'd have to write your own translator files). However, this could be done by someone and distributed to all teams. The only problem is that every team would need a copy of MATLAB with Sumilink, RTW, and a special block library for the I/O ports on the FIRST micro. Perhaps we should hammer Mathworks to be a sponsor. They could give every team an evaluation copy of the necessary software (they do this quite often - they give you a licence for 30 days and once 30 days is up, the software disables itself. You could easily extend this to 4 months for the life of the FIRST project). I think it would be smart for the Mathworks to do this since they'll get a lot of young people hooked on Mathworks products which should be good for future sales.
(As a side note, I'm a MATLAB/Simulink nut. I use it all day every day at work.)
-Chris
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