We are a low-cost scrappy FRC team from a inner city school in Houston,TX with tight budgets.
We don't have enough money to buy another cRio so we had to improvise with a VEX Cortex. Turns out the VEX Cortex is a great low-cost options for testing your FRC Robots.
Well trained VEX students without any FRC experience were able to easily wire up our Regional Champion FRC robot (without any mentor guidance).
Team Video:
http://lamar.discobots.org/node/8
Youtube :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6hkNDlDUT0
P.S. : I really did not want to rant about the single cRio program, but I'm from the OLD get your BRAND new control system every year IFI state of mind...
