RoboRio

[jagen31]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

From what Omar (CTRE) was telling me at CMP it will be full blown Java 8. This was a shock to me, everything I'd heard was Java 7 up until that point.

Yeah I attended a presentation at championships, and the panel there said it was shipping with Java SE 8 in the fall season.

Lambda Expressions anyone?

Also, CAN integration is pretty awesome (even the talons have it now.) Hopefully the roboRIO handles collisions better because when we tried CAN bus, the cRIO would die with a timeout exception (of course that could have been a wiring issue, I suppose.)

Another important thing they mentioned was that the terminating resistor is in the Power Distribution Panel, meaning you have to (well, you don't HAVE to, but its the easiest solution) daisy-chain all the breakout boards between the roboRIO and the PDP.

At least, this is what I've heard. I'm sorry if this is already common knowledge, I just thought it was important.

Also, netbeans support is not being dropped, says Brad Miller.