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Re: NI releasing/designing new controller for FRC
The NI Booth had a prototype. I almost got a picture of it. In addition to Ethernet, it has client/server USB ports & a high speed Canbus. It is running a dual core processor & a bigger FGPA. Although the guts are based on standard NI products, it is specifically designed for First. It is NI's hope that the programming tools for it will be backwards compatible to the CRIO. It looks to be novice friendly while having expansion opportunities for the teams with the resources to take advantage of them. No comment on rather or not the current CRIO's will be competition legal in 2015. Cost is predicted to be in line with the current CRIO.

A big thanks to National Instruments for continuing to support First in the way they do. I hope we get to Beta test it. (We are a java team)

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This is way beyond arduino.
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