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Re: Nearly Officially Official: cRIO Control System To Be Reused

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Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle View Post
Concerning reuse, the cRIO connectors are quite different from the friction fit of the previous system. The chassis is held by at most two fasteners, and the modules are clipped in. Disconnecting the chassis and leaving the modules attached to the robot is very quick. The next layer of connects, on the modules, are mostly D-sub based, and also quick to reconnect. Over the coming months, I assume many teams will come up with strategies for quickly putting the computing "engine" back into the robot with little to no rewiring. A backup of code images to install over enet is another important piece needed to put a robot into a different robot.

Anyway, I'm not trying to lobby one way or the other about the reuse. I'm pointing out that the cRIO mechanical design does make reuse much easier to accomplish, though.

Greg McKaskle
Having looked at pictures, I agree that just changing the cRIO and modules are very easy. However, Bill specifically mentioned the power distribution board and digital side car as being reused as well. Those would be considerably harder to remove, as each would have many connections.
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