[Jon Stratis]

If you have other questions, please feel free to contact us (2177 (at) therobettes.com)... We've been alpha/beta testing the new system since last fall, in java, and are more than willing to help out another local team get prepared for the season. Also, if you're coming down for MN SPLASH at the U in a couple of weeks, we'll be presenting on everything we know there.

For reference, we copied last year's code over to the new system, and the students were able to get it up and running over the course of a single meeting.

The biggest difference is with constructors - with the cRIO, you could create something using a slot and a port, in case you had two analog, digital, or pneumatic modules. with the roboRIO, there are no modules, so the constructors changed a little bit to reflect this.

If you use CAN, things there changed a bit to make it more user-friendly and less likely to blow up on you.

The AnalogChannel class is now AnalogInput, but otherwise the same. There's a new Potentiometer class that we really like, as well.

If you use pneumatics, things are a bit different, as there is no compressor code needed. It just works. Otherwise it's pretty much the same for controlling your solenoids.