FRC Blogged - 2015 FRC Controller Reveal & 'Athena' Q&A Panel

[DampRobot]

Originally Posted by bardd

Wooooo! Can't wait. I've been thinking about it and speculating for two weeks.

Is that how normal people feel before an Apple presentation?

I don't think "most" people anticipate Apple presentations. Anticipating NI controller releases is just a whole new level of nerdiness.

[apples000]

I don't know how true this is, but I've heard from somebody at CMP that the controller will have an ARM9 based SoC with similar amounts of RAM as the cRIO-II, and that there will be more I/O than the 3 pin connectors on the pcb they showed us, either on another part of the main controller, or on a separate breakout board, and that it will probably work with a modified version of WPILib.

I was told what the person thought would be the CPU's part number, but I'm not sure if I remember it properly. I think that it's mcimx25?

[Boe]

Does anyone know if a recording of this will be posted somewhere? I'm going to be at demo for one of our sponsors and can't watch it.

[crake]

Originally Posted by Boe

Does anyone know if a recording of this will be posted somewhere? I'm going to be at demo for one of our sponsors and can't watch it.

Yes. We plan to have streams for both the keynote and the q&a session posted to NI.com/first - and if that link doesn't work, ni.com/frc should do the trick.

[rachelholladay]

Originally Posted by crake

Yes. We plan to have streams for both the keynote and the q&a session posted to NI.com/first - and if that link doesn't work, ni.com/frc should do the trick.

Muchas muchas gracias. Am I correct in assuming that other keynotes will be posted on ni.com? There are a few non-FIRST ones (Truchard's, Red's) that I'll miss due to work but would like to check out later.

[crake]

Originally Posted by rachelholladay

Muchas muchas gracias. Am I correct in assuming that other keynotes will be posted on ni.com? There are a few non-FIRST ones (Truchard's, Red's) that I'll miss due to work but would like to check out later.

Usually they are posted about a day after.

[ayeckley]

Chris - for those of us that are "here", is the Athena panel discussion going to be located at the same hall as the keynote?

[crake]

Originally Posted by ayeckley

Chris - for those of us that are "here", is the Athena panel discussion going to be located at the same hall as the keynote?

Room 3 I believe

[maddoctor90]

So, for those attending NI Week the Q&A session will be in room 3 at 11:00 CST?

[crake]

Originally Posted by maddoctor90

So, for those attending NI Week the Q&A session will be in room 3 at 11:00 CST?

If you show up at 11 CST you'll miss it. I recommend 11 CDT instead

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by crake

Yes. We plan to have streams for both the keynote and the q&a session posted to NI.com/first - and if that link doesn't work, ni.com/frc should do the trick.

Both links currently do an infinite redirect.

[crake]

I had the same problem yesterday and it was due to a bad cache state in Firefox. Clearing the cache did the trick.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by apples000

I don't know how true this is, but I've heard from somebody at CMP that the controller will have an ARM9 based SoC with similar amounts of RAM as the cRIO-II, and that there will be more I/O than the 3 pin connectors on the pcb they showed us, either on another part of the main controller, or on a separate breakout board, and that it will probably work with a modified version of WPILib.

I was told what the person thought would be the CPU's part number, but I'm not sure if I remember it properly. I think that it's mcimx25?

I suspect the architecture will look similar to this: http://www.ni.com/white-paper/14602/en#h11

Originally Posted by crake

I had the same problem yesterday and it was due to a bad cache state in Firefox. Clearing the cache did the trick.

That worked for me.

[cgmv123]

Post all discussion/reactions during/after announcement here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...hreadid=118311

[crake]

Lets see who was paying attention during day 1 keynote this morning at NIWeek!