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Re: The Only Constant is Change

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
The simplest reason I can guess at is that the Classmate PC ended up costing less than a sufficiently robust fully custom solution (at least at the quantities we're talking about for FRC).
What if the PC isn't part of the control system, but part of the robot!

But in all seriousness, it would let each team have a dashboard program running on their OI for monitoring robot stats. (Personally I can't wait to try plugging an eye piece into it so I have a HUD while piloting the robot.)
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