Bob I just want to say that I really appreciate you making this post on the forum and answering our questions; the transparency about the future of VAIC is much appreciated.
This is great to hear! Releasing these tools will go a long way towards improving the educational ability of the program for advanced students.
This is really cool, and I look forward to seeing how this system will work.
This is interesting to hear. I take it that it would also be possible for a device other than the AI camera to read this data off the GPS (no encryption)? The increased modularity of the system (with the GPS and AI camera being separate modules) is very attractive, and it would be great if it were possible to read the GPS data directly from custom electronics
I have a few more questions:
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Many advanced teams (the target audience for VAIC) are accustomed to using other environments for programming the V5 Brain, such as PROS. As far as I know, support for features useful in VAIC such as VexLink is not yet available to the developers of PROS. Are there any plans to make such functionality, as well as support for these new VAIC sensors, available in the 3rd party SDK in time for next season?
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Will there be any form of DRM intended to prevent users that are not part of a registered VAIC team from using any of the hardware which you have mentioned?
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Are you able to shed any light on what the registration fee for VAIC might look like this coming season? Specifically, will it be mandatory to purchase this hardware at the time of registration or will teams have more freedom to select their own hardware? I understand that this may still be under review
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As you mentioned having VEXos broadcast the robot’s location to all other robots, will it be mandatory for every VAIC robot to make use of the GPS system so that their location can be known by all other robots?
Again Bob thank you for spending time to give us some increased transparency on the future of VAIC, it is much appreciated.