[BB] 14/10/11 More from my inbox

[Andrew Schreiber]

Learn 2 write dates dude!

I will say that I'm not liking this trend of rookies getting new hardware but veterans having to pay for it. I can understand not giving vets new modules but the CRIO chassis probably costs less than the old IFI control systems (full system) and we used to get that every year.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

I had the good fortune to attend a kickoff during the NH primary weekend. The only hotels that were available were in Massachusetts. Not a bad drive down the interstate about half an hour. Managed to talk to some news crews at dinner one night and some of the guys from one team were at breakfast when Hillary walked in and started campaigning.

[Akash Rastogi]

While they're competition testing new radio prototypes, I wonder what features and criteria they will be evaluating with.

What do you guys think?

[Cyberphil]

I am very psyched to see what the beta teams will do with the kinect! From what I have seen other people do already, it should be very interesting!

[MagiChau]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

While they're competition testing new radio prototypes, I wonder what features and criteria they will be evaluating with.

What do you guys think?

I am guessing at the least they will be evaluating how long it takes for the bridge to connect to the field after the robot is turned on. Matches would be able to start sooner if it took less time to wait for the robots to connect.

[Nick Lawrence]

Originally Posted by MagiChau

I am guessing at the least they will be evaluating how long it takes for the bridge to connect to the field after the robot is turned on. Matches would be able to start sooner if it took less time to wait for the robots to connect.

Well a good portion of the problem this year also seemed to be boot up time of the router. It would take about 15 seconds longer than the cRIO to boot and then 15-20 more to connect to an ap. I really hope they resolve this or get different hardware.

Disclaimer: I'm guesstimating and also despise this years bridge for the above reasons. I miss the old Linksys black box bridges for sure.

-Nick

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

While they're competition testing new radio prototypes, I wonder what features and criteria they will be evaluating with.

What do you guys think?

It is typically start up time and see how the hardware works with 6 systems on the field and boot up times. I remember RR in 2009 when they had us test the classmates and the boot up on a few of those took a LONG time.

I'm very excited to see what they pull out for River Rage!

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Guys,
The specification for the system is 50 seconds for the router and 20 sec min for the Crio, longer depending on the software you have loaded.

[Nick Lawrence]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Learn 2 write dates dude!

I will say that I'm not liking this trend of rookies getting new hardware but veterans having to pay for it. I can understand not giving vets new modules but the CRIO chassis probably costs less than the old IFI control systems (full system) and we used to get that every year.

Day month year format.

-Nick

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Nick Lawrence

Day month year format.

-Nick

Funny thing, I don't like that format because it breaks sorting based. If i use YYYY-MM-DD format I can easily do a sort by alphabetical order and have them sorted chronologically. I was just teasing you.