NI Week Athena Announcement and Q&A Panel
 

Links here: https://decibel.ni.com/content/commu...mpetitions/frc

Announcement keynote at 9:30a ET/8:30a CT/6:30a PT, Panel at Noon ET/11:00a CT/9:00a PT.

Post all discussion/reactions here.

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Live stream just went up with 15 mins to go. Hall looks to be filling up fast.

Update: 5 minutes!

Update 2: Away we go!

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We have to WUB HARDER to reach these kids!

That jab at Java :rolleyes:

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NI said that Java was an arcane language, and was part of the problem with current education is that students learn it, yet they are going to be announcing a controller that will probably work with Java.:rolleyes:
There's a feature to zoom in the NXT programming language, but STILL NO ZOOM IN LABVIEW

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Your robot always fails when it matters the most! (Pesky radio!)

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Name is "roboRIO"

ARM Cortex A9 with 500% faster CPU.

50% smaller, 75% lighter.

ESD and shock safe. Overvoltage protection throughout.

Same APIs and programming language support.

Will donate one to each team

More details in breakout.

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Ooooh

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Best part: Every team gets one free! :D

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Can't edit the thread title. :mad:

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10 dedicated pwm, 10 shared
10 dedicated dio, 16 shared
4 total relay (that's not enough!!)
8 analog in
2 analog out
2 USB host
1 USB device
Ethernet, CAN, integrated accelerometer
Signal Light
Runs linux
256 MB Storage
256 MB RAM
667MHz Dual Corm ARM cortex A9

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No more SideCar? I love it ^^
I wish I was two years younger, I bet using this will be fantastic.

EDIT: woo post 300.

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5.7 in. x 5.6 in.

Under 12 oz.

Wow.

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I bet this thing is <$250 as well.

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Most important questions for me:

Cost? For those of us that run 2 robots how much is this going to set us back?

Availability of both hardware and software? I don't like getting a new system on kickoff, and shipping it to me early December doesn't help much either.

Yes, I know it's over a year and a half out but it's never too early to make a plan of attack for utilizing new technology.