Team 1629 powers up beta test hardware.

Team 1629 powers up beta test hardware.

This weekend, the team got it's first look at the Beta hardware for the 2009 control system.

As part of the beta, teams must setup a "bench-test" of the control system. Once that test is complete, teams will load the controller onto a prior year's robot.

Here we see team members doing a final inspection of the controller before powering it up.

Yay... no smoke, and lots of green lights.