New CRIO in the KOP next year?

[Wayne C.]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

All right, how do we communicate with them?

you write courteous letters that point out the issues and offer solutions. And you pray that somebody listens.

Recently a few of us in the NE did just that and we have a dialogue going. But the original response I was getting was akin to "well- you are the only one with problems"

If you never takes steps to solve problems you cannot just complain that they exist.

WC

[waialua359]

A customized KOP (say 3 options?) sounds like a great idea.
Even though teams get many donated items every year, I hate to see it go to waste where it just stockpiles somewhere.
We personally try to give away and lend teams the stuff we dont use every year, except motors of course............but there is still that problem of waste.

I realize that it is an additional cost to customize KOPs, but maybe with the weight saved in shipping a lighter box, it will offset it, with the hopes of providing a cRIO every year.

[MrForbes]

One slight problem with the customized KoP idea is that we don't know what we need until after we get the KoP....we build our robot to play the game, and the game is announced about the same time we get the kit, and we need a few days at least to figure out whether we want to use pneumatics, kit frame, etc.

As far as whether or not we want a new cRio for that year, it should be pretty easy to decide ahead of time (before signing up for the first regional).