[FTC]: New Android Control System

[DavisDad]

This post is intended to summarize what is know about the new control system in order to plan work for next season.

I'm basing this mostly on posts with knowledgeable information at the Chief Delphi & FTC forums:

MattRain (Chief Delphi)
levydev (Chif Delphi)
Tom Eng, FTC Engineer (FTC)
Jerry McManus (FTC)
FTC Cause and Effect, FTC Staff (FTC)
ChiefCT

Thank you Matt, David, Tom, Jerry & JoAnn for your help in the forums! Much appreciated! Apologies to anyone I've missed.

FTC 2015/2016 Calendar

• March 11, 2015- FIRST® Announces ‘Game-Changing’ Technology Platform for use in Worldwide Student Robotics Competitions
• March 11, 2015- FTC Tech Talk video blog by Ken Johnson
• May 1, 2015- Modern Robotics Inc. website goes live
• May 5, 2015- FTC registration opens
• May ?, 2015- "We are packaging a beta of the SDK for release. We plan to have it online within this month (May). "
• June 5, 2015- Hardware and Getting Started Available
• Sept , 2015- App Inventor and Intro to Java Available

to be completed later...