Thread: The new 4 slot cRIO-FRCII
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Re: The new 4 slot cRIO-FRCII
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Originally Posted by Hawiian Cadder View Post
I think we may buy one, depending on how our fund-raising season goes. the new crio also has twice as much ram (according to the booth at nationals) so that might be useful for making a completely autonomous robot.

another factor is weight. while the new Rio doesn't weigh much less, many teams are 199.99 lbs every year.

we have a joke that this should be called the CC-Rio (compact, compact rio)
Personally, even with the added ram, it won't have much effect on performance, if any at all. I have yet to see a team that ran out of memory unless it was from a memory leak. Considering the fact that the cRio runs a relatively lightweight OS, you should have no performance issues at all. Honestly, I find it hard for any team to even come close to 50% ram usage. As my programming mentor put it: "FIRST gave us a Lamborghini as the main control system".
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