For Sale: Mint Condition FRC cRIO controller

[Randy Forgaard]

I hope it is okay to mention this here. Please forgive my faux paus if it is not.

To help raise funds for our team this year, we are selling an extra FRC cRIO controller and accompanying cRIO modules. We have listed it for sale on eBay. The starting bid is $600, which is $150 less than the $750 it costs for an FRC team to purchase this same cRIO package directly from National Instruments.

Last year was our FRC team's rookie year, and this was the cRIO that we used in our "benchtop robot" that we used for training our software team members on the control system last fall, before we received the cRIO in our Rookie Kit-of-Parts.

We need to raise additional money for our team this year, so we are selling our extra cRIO and the accompanying modules. They are in mint condition. Since they have only been used for a few months on our "benchtop robot," they have never been installed on a moving robot, have never been jostled around, etc.

This cRIO would be excellent for a new rookie FRC team that wants to jump right into learning about the FRC programming and control system before the Kick-Off in January, or for a second "testing" robot for your veteran FRC team so that your software team can make progress while your hardware team is working, or in case you want to keep last year's FRC robot intact for demonstration purposes, etc.

Good luck teams, and we are looking forward to the upcoming 2011 season!