desktop computer on robot?

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Not an oversight: http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=11176

This is disappointing to say the least. It's frankly ridiculous that there's support for the serial port in the FRC libraries, but we're forbidden to use it. I'm dismayed at the thought of NI spending any time on development of useless functionality when they could have been fleshing out support for actual useful interfaces, like buffered communication on the SPI bus.

There really seems to be some sort of fundamental disconnect between the 2009 GDC and the GDC of the past several years. I was under the impression that we were being given a new control system so that we could push the envelope with it and do interesting, exciting things. Instead, we're being restricted from doing anything beyond the rather strict vision of what the GDC can be done with the controller.