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Re: NI releasing/designing new controller for FRC

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Originally Posted by Tom Line View Post
I sincerely hope the controller is over-engineered to a level that makes it virtually indestructable. Otherwise teams will be replacing their entire controller when someone shorts a 24V power to a 5V jumper.
I expect that since the Athena is going to be around the same price as the crio, it should be about as robust as the crio. The digital sidecar is not meant to be put on robots like we use. I think NI realizes that our equipment can take a beating and will probably take that into account.