Thread: "Java, Sun SPOT and the FIRST Robotics Competition"
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Re: "Java, Sun SPOT and the FIRST Robotics Competition"
I hate Java (its a religious thing though, no actual reason), but this is pretty cool. Now if they would just get rid of vxWorks and let us use Linux on there we'd be really set...
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