We're excited about next year's new control system. I'm starting this thread to assemble information about the "Qualcomm® Snapdragon" based smartphone platform. We were a rookie team in the 2014/2015 season and had just begun learning the NXT/RobotC/Textrix systems.
I personally, am not at all disappointed to put NXT behind us. My role as FTC mentor has been mainly mechanical engineering and fabrication support, but I have worked with the NXT controls and programming enough to understand the limitations. I'm excited about First's decision to move to a more sophisticated platform where we won't be tied to RobotC, Tetrix and Matrix proprietary systems. I'm hoping FTC goes to a fully open system where we can use available evolving robotics technologies independent of HiTech, Lego, RobotC sellers.
So... here's information I've assembled so far:
http://simhardware.org//img/FTC 2015...cr 22mar15.pdf
While waiting for further details of the hardware/software specs later this month, I'd like to look into "Qualcomm® Snapdragon" hardware and the programming platforms. If anyone would like to post here (or link to) their work, it would be much appreciated.
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