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Re: NI releasing/designing new controller for FRC

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Originally Posted by Steven Sigley View Post
So the pneumatics will be CAN, and the Power Distribution Panel, is there any way to integrate sensors like encoders into the CAN network without PWM cables in the future?
Most of the encoders used on FRC robots are quadrature encoders, which means they have four wires. They're usually four individual wires twisted together or a four wire ribbon cable, they're not really pwm wires. The way the digital sidecar is set up, you need to use three wire connectors, which is really inconvenient, but the new control system might have dedicated encoder inputs, which would be great.