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Re: NI releasing/designing new controller for FRC

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Originally Posted by fb39ca4 View Post
How about something like a BeagleBone or UDOO? They both have the i/o capabilities of an Arduino, but also have 1Ghz ARM CPUs (quad core in the latter) and Ethernet.
The problem with the beaglebone and others is that they do not have a Real time operating system. This means that there is a delay when inputting data and things don't always work in real time. This becomes an issue for safety and a number of other things as proccesing can become delayed as you can not expect it to processe an input in a certain time frame.

While they do have I/O doing something simple like PWM generation requires special scripting.
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