**FIRST EMAIL**/Future of FRC - Sneak Peek

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by whytheheckme

If the price of the KOP had to go up $500 or $1000 for a super-advanced control system, I think it would be well worth the cost.

Jacob

I disagree. There should be better technology at a lower cost for larger volumes of processing than there was a few years ago. Hence, there should be almost no reason for the KOP cost to go up just because a new RC has a few more widgets. We've already figured out some pretty advanced things to do for control of an FRC bot with a simple processor. Aside from 80-dimension closed-loop control systems whose backend processing most students can't comprehend until a couple of years into college, what else is there to do with an RC? There are only so many ways to tell a machine to move.

I know I exaggerated a bit, but NASA put a man on the moon with less processing than some FRC bots. Think about that for a minute.