Sasquatch Robot Controller powered by Arduino

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Originally Posted by ajlapp

Unfortunately this will not be a reality. We were informed on Friday that we didn't make the first round of cuts. Hopefully a solution as simple as the Arduino will prevail.



We proposed Simulink. It will compile down to the Arduino and there is official support from Mathworks.

Simulink + Arduino

That said we have focused mainly on the native Arduino environment.

Since you have openly acknowledged this I'll add my 2 cents.
Myself and another party also presented a proposal for a control system to FIRST.

We also were told Friday that our proposal will not be making it to the second round.

In our case it was understandable. We don't currently have the product in the market place and while our core processor, like the Arduino, was available at Radio Shack FIRST had some concerns about our system not be established enough for their needs.

We were able to self fund the effort for the most part but like yourselves we lacked specifics from FIRST about the enclosure.

On the plus side within 24 hours I was able to locate an alternate place to sell the system for a slightly different purpose and that means we have sufficient cause to continue our project and maybe in a few years FIRST will still be interested. Our system was specifically designed to weather time so really regardless of how many years FIRST waits when the time comes we'll have something current and timely to show.

Having looked your product over I think it's interesting. I wish you all the best in getting it out there and funded and I'll even toss you a few bucks towards that end. At the very minimum your approach to solving the issue of the graphical language was different from ours fundamentally. I was going to approach that by creating a construct from scratch even though there's already a drag and drop programming language and ladder logic programming translater available for our target CPU.

I won't distract from this topic with specifics on the alternate system, I just wanted to offer some collaboration and maybe some comfort to a fellow traveller. Keep the faith and march on cause we'll be on that same path.