New PDB info?

[RufflesRidge]

Originally Posted by yash101

I will have to give that to Team NI because it now really starts to be clicking in that NI has been designing products specifically for FRC. We never needed the cRIOs to be strong enough to withstand the worst of the collisions because the G-Forces hardly become that high!

Have you ever measured the impact forces of an FRC robot? I believ you'd find they can be higher than you think.

One thing that I am wondering about, though, is the serial capabilities. I would really like a bit more information, more specifically:
-Logic Levels (1.8|3.3|5|6|12)
-ports -- will there be available RS232?
-UART -- Probably there. Is is easy to access?
-i2C -- Probably there. Is it easy to access?
-Any other serial bidirectional ports/protocols?

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-30419

RS232 on the board, TTL serial on the MXP. 1x I2C and 1xSPI on the board, 1 more of each on the MXP. 2x USB host, potentially 1 taken up by a USB radio (depending on wireless solution).

The alpha libraries look very similar to the existing libraries, so they'll be just as easy to access as they are right now.

Also, how is the new Java SE VM working? Does it by chance have the java.net package?

Standard Java 8 SE Embedded for ARM

Also, do we by chance know a bit more about the release dates? Will it be released before the season starts so the teams can learn it?

From everything I've heard, I'm not hopeful about software for non-beta teams before kickoff.