Bill's Blog 6/15/11: "What percent of viewers read the title?"

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by sgreco

I don't want to get into a "back in the day" discussion, but I wonder what the percentage vote would have been if they asked who wanted the IFI control system back...

(I would vote for it)

I would vote for it too. With the way this system works where it just becomes a waiting game where 5 minutes can go by without connecting and without doing anything it will connect.

[Hawiian Cadder]

It might be cool if they gave us wireless power for the router and Crio. i know it is unlikely to happen, but it would be cool if you could just leave it on all the time at competition, and not worry about changing batteries affecting your robot.

never going to happen, but it would still be awesome.

we got bypassed once this year, and it was because we didnt plug the router back in after a tether. annoying mistake.

[apalrd]

Originally Posted by Hawiian Cadder

we got bypassed once this year, and it was because we didnt plug the router back in after a tether. annoying mistake.

With this years router, you can tether to one of the open ports on the radio and not disconnect the cRio from the radio at all.

[Hawiian Cadder]

Originally Posted by apalrd

With this years router, you can tether to one of the open ports on the radio and not disconnect the cRio from the radio at all.

i wish we had known that at our regional