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Re: "Java, Sun SPOT and the FIRST Robotics Competition"

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Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle View Post
This has been mentioned a few times. Can you elaborate on what the 30 second sequence is, and when it becomes a big part of the development cycle?...Or is your controller taking 30 seconds to reboot?
It takes longer than 30 seconds, sometimes as long as 45 seconds, between clicking the "click here to reboot" button after setting the code to run at startup and having the battery voltage display on the DS screen. It was consistently 27 seconds from "three-button reboot" to responsive robot. That's a huge increase from the two to five seconds it takes to start up and begin controlling last year's system after loading a new program.

Don't even get me started on the ridiculous amount of time it takes to build a LabVIEW program this year.