[JesseK]

I think it was a great year to introduce the system. The floor let all of us get away with so many low-quality nuance designs, it took the pressure off of most teams so they could focus on software. On top of that, some teams simply built cookie cutter drive trains, while many teams experimented with drive trains that have never been done before in FRC (330 Beachbots, for example, and 1885 though ours is a reinvention of a previously-seen drive train). The drive trains could mechanically have been done before, but much of the processing to control it may or may not have been eaten up by the old IFI CPU, which would have significantly hindered the amount of PID processing available for some of the feedback systems seen this year. Many teams were also finally less inhibited to try the wacky, crazy, or difficult code-wise. Such examples are camera code processing at 15fps, and many drivers stations that utilize the data received back from the cRIO.