[Jared]

I've only had a few minutes with a roboRIO, and from what I've seen, a simple shield on top of it should prevent aluminum shavings from getting in. The DSC was fairly resistant to outside shorts, but little aluminum shavings on the inside caused some magic smoke to leak out... I'd be worried about inside shorts if it doesn't have a coating on it.

Our cRIO somehow ended up with an incredible amount of aluminum shavings inside of it, causing crashes/random behavior and errors. Amazingly, after cleaning it out, it worked perfectly.