Cypress Enhanced IO

[ayeckley]

I don't have access to an FRC-flavored-LabVIEW-installed PC at the moment, so I can't answer the question for myself: With the loss Enhanced I/O has quadrature encoder input to the DS been completely lost also? If so, that is a massive step backwards from my perspective. Especially in a game in which it might be useful to orient the robot via a large, multi-turn knob, for example.

Unless the performance of the DS-to-roboRio protocol has increased significantly relative to previous years, interpreting quadrature via DIO inputs (Cypress or otherwise) is not a viable option. I'm happy to be proven wrong by anybody that has successfully pulled it off. Use of a multiturn pot and analog input has some significant disadvantages in comparison (apparent to those of use that have used that approach in the past), but at this point it may represent the least-bad alternative [shudder].