Jaguars vs Victors

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I don't know about major overhauls (there are already unforeseen consequences from that sort of thing in the past 14 years I've been involved in U.S. FIRST).

Plus, many teams have invested a small fortune in parts.

I am quite comfortable with the Victors, and I think that they have historically functioned quite well.

That being said, rolling everything into a single module to add to the cRIO carries with it the disadvantage that the students don't get to really glue it all together.

Additionally, this module idea with everything in it is...sort of the like the Jaguars with a single CAN bus...a single point of failure. I should hope that great care would be taken to insure parts would be available quickly if things go badly and the smoke comes out.

I think the Jaguars just need really 2 things:

1. A good comprehensive, easy to grasp, document set designed to help design with them within this environment.

2. A little design work so that the next revision better addresses a few of the things I often see vex people.

(On a side note I very much favor modular design. It leaves room for much innovation and it allows competition between part sources that...when supervised properly...helps keep the quality high and the price low.)