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Originally Posted by TheOtherGuy
Let's just say it won them the Judge's Award on Friday afternoon 
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Well, I'll just say I'm one of the judges that gave 842 the award and I'm the guy that designed the FRC field radio system.
Bluetooth is not an issue to field systems, its a very low power system (<30ft range) and is frequency compliant in working with WIFI systems. So the 842 system is IMHO fine to use at competitions. The way I read the GDC comments are that they are more concerned about phones that have wifi, I have a newer IPhone and it has wifi, leave the wifi off in phones at competitions. The new robot radio system is being characterized for the first time in the field environments this year. There was no other way to test other than just throw it out there. We were trying to reduce the varibles as much as possible. The system is working beyond expectations, there are some issues still with teams that don't understand RF principals, but those will be worked out eventually though shared information outlets such as CD.
And I've mentioned this before, the field uses BOTH 2.4 and 5 GHz radios. 5 GHz is dedicated to the robots.
THX
