In the meantime, the XRP is a good place to design and prototype AUTO code in Blocks for FTC robots.
Is your team programming in Blocks or Java?
WPILib is going to be pretty close for Android Studio Java. There aren’t a lot of examples for Blocks coding on the XRP. I’m trying to build some of that out for my teams now.
A standard XRP has a two motor drive, similar to the FTC Starter Kit chassis. There is a Mecanum Chassis (Mecanum Chassis) that can be built for an additional $20 in motors and $20 in Mecanum Wheels.
Since most of my FTC teams are using Mecanum wheeled Chassis, I’ve started my work in prototyping AUTO code with this chassis. Check out this OpMode that drives in a triangle: 12A-Triangle.blocks - Google Drive. It was inspired by our first year FLL-Explore team. There are good functions for forward, backwards, right, left, clockwise, and counterclockwise. I am planning on swinging the servo arm to indicate some sort of manipulator action by the competition robot.
The Software Development Kit (SDK) for the XRP isn’t synced with the FTC SDK. I still think there is value in building out the AUTO architecture and doing some tuning on the XRP. Then this can be translated into the AUTO OpModes on an FTC competition robot.