Lunacy 2009

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Lunacy is a game unlike anything we have ever seen before. Alliances of three robots each harvest "Moon Rocks" and score them in the opposing alliance's trailers to score points.
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Click the image above to see the game a large version of the game description flyer.

A new control system:

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The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) has adopted the CompactRIO (cRIO) control system (shown above) and the classmate portable computer  for 2010 season and beyond. The cRIO from National Instruments can be programmed in LabVIEW or C or Java (starting this season).