Future FRC Technologies?

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Originally Posted by ASD20

Sort of along with this, eventually lifting the ban on wifi. I understand that right now the technology is not there, so this change would not happen for a while, but when it is possible, it will make scoutung systems and other things much easier to implement. I am also curious about what creative new things teams would develop for competitions if they are able to use wifi.

From what I can tell, it's just easier for FIRST to not allow it whatsoever. Only having to worry about Field Coordination for Wifi rather than Field Wifi & User Wifi can quickly run into Quality of Service dropping dramatically, something I'd rather now happen during Einstein F3.



Plus, you get teams be more inventive about scouting data transfer (audio / QR / Bluetooth / Network over USB / etc.) I think the learning process actually teaches more when writing scouting apps. Difficult challenges produce inventive solutions, kind-of like the competition itself.

A potential alternate-use would be to switch back to non-Wifi transceivers for Robot ==> DS comms, though you then get back to the issue of if you lose your driver-station transponder, you're out of luck...
Full Disclosure: I tried to write a scouting app and wanted to throw my desk out a window...