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Re: RoboRio

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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV View Post
I was told the RoboRIO we saw at champs was most likely the final hardware, so yes they are sticking with the male pins on the main controller.
Besides protection, you generally want female pins on the powered side of a connection to prevent shorts. Sounds like the rRio is designed to take such faults, but even so...

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
*sigh*

What's the spacing on the pins? I guess I'll go about trying to source some sort of adapter to make it harder for my students to destroy.
Should not be terribly difficult to come up with. I imagine (and hope) the spacing is the same .100 used elsewhere.