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Originally Posted by FrankJ
I think many issues blamed on Jaguars and wiring was actually programming. Anyway as a system the Canbus Jaguars were problematic. The current Roborio/Talon SRX is way better.
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Agreed there were a lot of issues programming could have addressed with the Jaguars and cRIO, and software fixes have been released to the RoboRIO and accessories, but it is hard on students trying to learn programming to address that sort of thing especially with the time it takes to reload test code into the cRIO and to some extent the RoboRIO.
Programmers without deep hardware/firmware familiarity and knowledge often face these kind of issues when they do embedded work and robotic systems. It becomes extremely important to have clear disclosure and support.
In a way, more CAN devices puts pressure and focus on the system providers to find, resolve and support lest we accumulate risk. I am much more comfortable with how we use CAN now.