WindRiver gone for 2015?

[taichichuan]

Originally Posted by KPSch

Yes, my original post was specifically about possibilities for using the cRIO in 2015 and beyond for practice/demo bots. Our team will probably use one of the tools linked by Joe. Hopefully FIRST can get something worked out with WindRiver for teams that want to continue using their cRIOs for non-competition uses.

As far as alternate control systems, RPi would be tricky since its GPIO lines are 3.3v. The BBB might be a better choice. Of course, there's always Arduino with something like RobotOpen.

FWIW, I've had very good success runing 'bots with RobotOpen and a Sasquatch board. It works like a champ and allows my Arduino-aware developers to write some cool code. The layout concept of the Sasquatch board and the new roboRio are also vary similar. I've also used the Arduino add-in shields from Team 221 (and Andy Mark) with Arduino Unos. These also work well and are reasonably cheap. This doesn't keep your cRios running, but it does allow your software squad to experiment with past year's bots.

You could also look at the Udoo board. I've got a couple that we use and they have single, dual or quad-core ARM goodness with an Arduino Due on the same board. I haven't tried it with the Team 221 shield yet, though.

HTH,

Mike