Team Fusion #364, Bayou Regional, FMS Woes

[RyanN]

Originally Posted by Tom Line

I feel for you guys. We've never missed as much of a regional as you did, but we missed the first 1/3 due to control issues in '09, and I know how horrible we felt. I can't imagine being in your situation.

I didn't see it listed anywhere, but I may have missed it: Have you guys gone out with a different driver station and no cypress board to see what happens?

We went out with 3 different laptops as our driver station.

1. The old style classmate that we received in 2010.
2. A Dell M5040 (we personally don't like this one, and it restarted during our first match on Friday due to pending Windows Updates... go figure)
3. Late 2010 MacBook Pro (running Windows 7 natively)

All three laptops are fully capable of running the Driver Station software along with the Dashboard.

We have not tried running without the cypress board. It's an integral part of our robot design. Running without it would hinder our driver from running. The Cypress board shouldn't be the problem.

On Saturday, when we were desperate, we used the Classmate, with the default dashboard, and the dumbed down code that I've mentioned before. It was a stock FRC system.

Joe, we'll try replacing the PD board when we get a chance. As of right now, we're not registered for another regional. We're going to try to register, and as such, we don't want the students messing with the robot until a final decision has been made.