New FTC Platform

[Daviddavid]

Originally Posted by yongkimleng

As for FIRST, my only guess why they are inclined on bluetooth is the ease of integration. I've played with serial-BT devices before and they are like, a drop-in replacement for a point-to-point serial link. Coz the interface on those bluetooth endpoints are just TTL serial. The drawback, though, is the limit on transfer rate. We'll still be stuck with like what, 115kbps streams (lol).

Metal gears and such definitely allows more possibilities. Thats if they are putting it together such that, we can make FRC-sized bots out of a kit.

I'm much more excited about the wifi possibilities. About metal gears and stuff, why? It's not needed. Why would we want to build FRC-sized bots in FTC, isn't that what FRC is for? The reason I got a school to agree to start a vex team next year is because it was small enough to do in the room, they didn't need a machine shop, it was pretty cheap and it was safe for kids to work with. Bigger and stronger robots just moves away from that, which is why I hope FIRST realizes Vex is perfect for classroom use and keeps it.