NEW 2009 Control System Released

[RyanJK]

This new system is gonna be awesome! I really liked the old IFI system, but I really think this new system is gonna be better. I'm really excited for wireless debugging over wi-fi. Also, from a perspective of preparing for our future, National Instruments is a very big company with a lot of presence in the engineering field, and this system will prepare us for the future where we will all probably work with National Instruments products.

All the features sound great, but my one question is, theoretically, if the control system was on and connected to a 802.11 hotspot, could you have your laptop connected to a 802.11 hotspot and use the wi-fi to wirelessly program the control system? And I'm not thinking of across the room programming, I'm thinking of the laptop and robot being in separate hotspots programming, let's just say, the robot is in Detroit and the laptop is in Atlanta! I know that similar things have been done in different fields, but did NI put that capability into the system?

Overall, this will be quite a leap forward with FIRST, I only wish I could have seen the testbed robot in Atlanta (but no, I had to listen to a boring health lecture!)