Re:New competition components (Score 1)

i believe there's a replacement for IFI_loader on sourceforge somewhere, you'll need to run the compiler in wine, but it's probably a really bad idea to start trying this stuff on a team's first year. there's no way(that i know of) you'll get any C++ code on the robot, and no real need for it, in all likelyhood you'll be writing under 200 lines of your own code, and most of the difficulty with it will be making it work as you expect it (#define is your friend here). when you're dealing with 130lbs of robot, it's a lot harder than you would think to make it do what you want. whether or not your team will actually be using the kitbot frame, get them to assemble it and attach all the sensors to it so the programmers can start getting some idea of how to use them. -former team100 programmer