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Re: 2007 Robot Controller

I agree that integrating the radio can be done- there's buttloads of space in that box- but I don't think it will be done. The modems we use are not strictly for FIRSTs use, and IFI would either need a special order for a card type mount, or integration onto a reletively cramped board- something that requires quite a bit of work for, as Billfred said, a low volume product. But it could be done.

In my opinion, the only changes to the brain will be a firmware update. They just replaced the PIC (Which is software- the chips are the same size- pin count etc. I believe), they have a nice supplementary income from broken serial connectors .

But, I would like to see the USB programming support. There isn't a computer that can be used for programming that doesn't have USB support- the only problem is the addition of even more control hardware. PIC's, pull-ups, etc.
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