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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV
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.
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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
*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.
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Should not be terribly difficult to come up with. I imagine (and hope) the spacing is the same .100 used elsewhere.