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Re: Advantage of CAN?
One often overlooked feature of the CAN is the ability to change from ccoast to brake mode on the fly. Every year it is a requirement for our robot drive to use brake mode in auto mode for precision and in coast mode during teleop so the driver doesnt flip the bot. Before CAN we had to waste 2 precious digital outputs and make annoying custom daisy chain cables to change the brake coast header. Now it is simply another CAN command.
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I don't think that FIRST is going to get better with a top down solution alone, it is going to take a grass roots effort to strengthen teams. That starts by teams getting off their "islands", self imposed or otherwise. - Fe_Will [more] 
01-02-2012, 23:10
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