NI announces native CAN Support for Compact RIO

[Phalanx]

Very cool to hear this....

When I was in St. Louis at NI's booth, I asked them about providing a native CAN module for FRC in the future. We can only hope. I for one hope so.

I also asked them about a breakout bumper similar to the one's used on the Analog and Solenoid modules for the main Digital Module such that the Digital Side Car could be eliminated completely or at least have a choice to use it or not.

The thought here was if teams move to CAN instead of PWM, then they only really need digital ports so why the entire side car. Simply provide a bumper with digital pins, a light signal pin, 1 relay pin for the compressor, and a small number of PWM's for servos.