[FrankJ]

The first crio chassis is FRC specific. You would have to update the FPGA program for it to be useful in other applications. So I don't see them having much value outside a FRC team. The IO cards are standard NI cards. Some one makes a arduino shield for the digital side car.

We have most of the old crios doing something. Java is little wonky because you have to use the 2014 plugins & a old version of Java. Might be a little confusing to new programmers going back & forth that & the roborio Java. The 2104 season Labview works. The new labview apparently also works with some contortions.

If nothing else, make a demo board on how a digital control system works and give it to a high school or something like that.