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Re: [BB]: Beta Hardware
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Originally Posted by Fe_Will View Post
FRC is the a varsity level robotics competition... What I hear from your post equates to you wanting a sixth grader to step on to the football field and be competitive with high school upper class men. Please don't encourage the dumbing down of this competition, keeping it at a high level is what makes it relevant.
Why do the goals of ease of accessibility for inexperienced teams and advanced capabilities for veteran teams have to be mutually exclusive? Doesn't having more "out of the box" functionality elevate the level of competition rather than dumb it down?

Reliability, elegance, and better documentation will come with time. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
Don did a better job explaining it than I did:
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Originally Posted by Don Rotolo View Post
If the technology is overwhelming, try FTC. <sheesh>. (In other words: Who wants some lemonade?)
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