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Re: RobotOpen Control Shield for Arduino

This is a great idea. I would like to see more on specs, documentation, cost, etc (available on your website? It's blocked at my work, sorry).

I'm sure that most teams normally try to re-use an IFI system for maintaining the usage of their robots, if they have them. We have done this, and although we have many IFI boards there are certain disadvantages that this product would win against.

My only criticism is calling this product a "Drop-In" replacement. While the hardware I/O mimics the basic connectivity (to an extent) it is most certainly not a drop-in replacement. Besides the obvious that all software would have to be re-written (Dashboard/Driver Station/Robot) this board also lacks (I assume) vision processing abilities, multiple quadrature encoders, etc etc. I'm not putting this product down at all, but I would call it something more sensible like a cRIO-alternative or something along these lines. When you call it a drop-in replacement, I think some newer people would automatically assume this device is capable of performing the same functionality as the cRIO, which it is not.
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