[Rick Vogl]

There is good news to report. We RMAed a cRIO that had a power issue with National Instruments. The new cRIO that arrived has zero communications issues. The robot connects flawlessly through the Dlink bridge to the previous years Linksys AP to our driver station and programming laptop.

NI has also agreed to RMA the cRIO that still had the comms problem. This unit is an older one by the serial number so I am think that the problem lies someware in the low level firmware that prevents the ip address to ARP properly. This may also explain some of the other issues that have been posted where a cRIO reset is required after the robot powers up in order to establish communication.

We should be good to go at our first regional with a running robot, not just a pretty lawn ornament like we were at the Suffield Shakedown.