RoboRIO in stock at AM

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by jhersh

I loaded up a machine with LabVIEW 2013 on it and was able to find the roboRIO in NI MAX. You can use NI MAX to install LabVIEW RT 2013 to the target, which also installs the Linux OS. From there you can enable the sshd in MAX as well and you should have access to log into the roboRIO and play with the OS. Naturally this is the OS from over a year ago, not the newer version that will be included in the FRC images. There are a number of differences, but there are more similarities, so you can gain some familiarity with the layout of the file system. This is only if you want to tinker with the system before kick-off. You won't have FPGA support, so you can't talk to any I/O. When you get the image on kick-off day, you will be formatting the root FS, so don't expect to keep any changes you may make to this older version of the OS.

Bottom line, if you really want to play with Linux on the target, do this. If you expect to "use" the device to "do something", this won't help you.

Now that the FRC 2015 base software is available and can be run in eval mode until kick-off, this situation improves. You can now play around with the version of the OS for the roboRIO that will be used for competition in 2015. Same instructions above apply, but the LabVIEW version is 2014.

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-34731