[Tom Line]

Definitely thanks to IFI. It was remarkable how bullet-proof most of their systems were.

I'm also going to say, thank you National Instruments! The new controllers have capabilities the old ones never dreamed of, with many basic features built in that have allowed less experienced teams to address the challenge this year rather than learning just how to make the robot move.

In addition, the wireless uploads and data feedback that we get to the dashboards are incredible, and have helped immensely with debugging.

We all know that the last time a new controls system was introduced there were a lot of field problems - we know NI will get this system sorted out and running the same way IFI did.

I look forward to the day when the NI system is optimized enough to allow video streaming through the web camera (without rebundling, etc).

Perhaps this post should be a universal sponsor thank you - to past, present, and future sponsors that let us do this thing that we love.