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

[Jim Giacchi]

Originally Posted by Chris Hibner

I believe the match schedules used to have a 5 minute cycle time a long time ago.

I believe that was when the robots would connect within 5 - 15 seconds.... oh for the days when we had the little countdown window and the little lights that told us everything was ok.
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Seriously though I have never been a fan of the new control system. Sometimes simpler is better and if I had a choice, I would switch back to the IFI controller in a heartbeat. Sure, I probably couldn't use any fancy image processing, but my team can never figure out how to program that anyway... and I much prefer setting two dipswitches to the nightmare that is setting up the cRio. I remember being a sophomore in high school and setting up the IFI Pbasic controller, it took me literally 30 minutes and it was the first time I had ever done it. 10 years later, as a college graduate it took days to figure it out. Does that seem right to anyone?
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Although I do believe that a significant amount of the problem is with the chosen radio. I believe there are many, many options that would be better then the standard wireless network.