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Re: Ardruino and cRio

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Originally Posted by RoboMaster View Post
But in normal competition setup you can't use the serial port. It only sends out basic status information about the cRIO. You would have to change some default stuff, which I think would be easier said than done, and then revert for competitions. Plus, the recent cRIOs don't even have a serial port, right? (I might be wrong on that).
All false.

The serial port is a valid port (on both cRio's), there were no 2011 rules prohibiting its use.

It's available in code as a standard VISA serial port with WPI wrapper in LabVIEW. I would assume it's available in other languages similarly.

You would have to flip the Console Out DIP switch, but that's not very hard to do.
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