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Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman
Here's a fun one to ponder:
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Maybe the rookie router/bridge needed to "learn" from the veteran router/ bridge how to do things the right way before they could stand alone and work on their own? Network device mentoring...awwwwww.  |
I have never experienced a wireless network setup that was as easy as it was billed to be. There is always
something not configured correctly, requiring a reset or animal sacrifice. More often then not I have no idea what was wrong or how it got corrected.
Needless to say, I was not impressed when the new communications gear came out. I'm actually not really impressed with the whole cRio based control system, or the inclusion of a laptop on the OI, but hey... I'll always be a child of the pBasic IFI days. I really pine for those simpler times, when I actually understood what every component of the control system did, and could tell them apart. These days I can't keep all the sidecars, breakout boards, modules, wireless dohickies, communication buses and speed controllers straight.
Heck, there are even three or four different voltages on the robot now! Back in my day we only had 12 volts to work with and we liked it that way. The really sneaky teams could get a few milliamps of 5v's, and talk to the controller with a photoresistor and a program set to blink an LED.
I feel like a dinosaur, wondering what happened to his beloved van door motors.