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Originally Posted by nathanww
The delay is caused mostly just by the fact that the control system is so much more complex than last year's--for one, the cRio has an actual operating system. There's also a lot more paralell processing going on, which means that in order for the robot to perform all its functions, all the coprocessing devices need to be booted up, which for my team is the camera, bridge, and DS, in addition to the cRio.
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If you plug in a serial cable and read the debug output from the cRio in hyperterminal, you can see all the start up processes the thing is running even before it takes a look at user code. This is really a whole new animal from previous years.