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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
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Originally Posted by EricVanWyk
You've summed the situation up pretty well. I'd like to add that the 2CAN also has some features that were not legally usable for FRC2010. For example, you can create a robot that is simply a PD, some Jaguars, a wifi bridge, and a 2CAN.
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I saw such a robot being demonstrated next to the AndyMark booth last weekend. A suitably-programmed WiFi-capable laptop and USB game controller were all that was necessary to drive it.... |
Our team is in the process of doing this (over wireless) for our practice/demo bot(s), and I'm figuring that MANY teams will find this useful as well. It's great being able to operate multiple bots without having to spend big $$'s on another cRIO. And a great way to have the kids learn comm protocols, etc. Plus there are loads and loads of competition-legal ways to use CAN-capable devices. Great having CAN available!
By the way, we're planning to upload our "2CAN PC driver" code to firstforge eventually so other teams can benefit as well. Before that though we want to get the driver code working without having to revert the Jags back to the default (non-FRC) firmware - since the "trusted heartbeat" required by the FRC Jag firmware isn't documented we have some further reverse-engineering to do and haven't been able to get time on the cRIO until recently
- Ron
Team #2607 controls mentor