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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
This is disappointing to say the least. It's frankly ridiculous that there's support for the serial port in the FRC libraries, but we're forbidden to use it. I'm dismayed at the thought of NI spending any time on development of useless functionality when they could have been fleshing out support for actual useful interfaces, like buffered communication on the SPI bus.
There really seems to be some sort of fundamental disconnect between the 2009 GDC and the GDC of the past several years. I was under the impression that we were being given a new control system so that we could push the envelope with it and do interesting, exciting things. Instead, we're being restricted from doing anything beyond the rather strict vision of what the GDC can be done with the controller.
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I think that this is true it is disappointing that we can not do these things with the 2009 control system. But I have to agree with the GDC on this one to be honest. The control system is new and I think that there will be alot more features next year, but they really want to get all the bugs possible worked out this year. They do not want the extra complication of the possibility of custom circuits or custom computers on board, to get in the way of them making the control system (or troubleshooting it, if there is a problem).
Also the CRIO is a powerful controller I do not know why you would really need more then that right now.
Just my ideas.