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Re: Protecting the roboRIO
The roboRIO is a lot more robust than the digital sidecar. The roboRIO is designed to survive an (inadvertent) shorting of any pin to any other pin and/or the (inadvertent) application of battery voltage to any pin. Plenty of teams are concerned about toasting their $430 roboRIOs as opposed to the $70 sidecar, but I've seen nothing to indicate this is a significant concern.
That said, it would seem prudent to mount the roboRIO behind a piece of Lexan to protect it from impacts in addition to swarf. (As well as to protect any MXP electronics that haven't undergone the amount of engineering that went into the roboRIO.)
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