pic: Good use of a old cRio

[chmconkling]

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[BitTwiddler]

Kind of a sad ending to an old workhorse. They were cranky but they could really take a beating.

[Dief Chelphi]

It's not like they are expensive or anything.

[nighterfighter]

Maybe you can use it to cook corndogs, and have it catch the crumbs!

[yash101]

A bit more of a serious reply:
Our team has one (working) cRIO left on our last year's robot for demonstrations. It's nice to have the old cRIOs available, but it is also a total bummer that there is no support for them anymore. There isn't a driver station for it. There aren't programming tools with the right plugins either.
In short, they are quite useless. The dropdown on the DS which presumable allows you to change driver station versions(?) doesn't seem to co-op with the old cRIO either.

If NI and WPI didn't drop support for the old cRIO entirely, it may be of some good use, especially while prototyping. I doubt every team has five RoboRIO's to run those small prototypes. In our team, only the programming team has access to our RoboRIO's because they are under continuous use. After all, the new RoboRIO is quite pricey.

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by yash101

A bit more of a serious reply:
Our team has one (working) cRIO left on our last year's robot for demonstrations. It's nice to have the old cRIOs available, but it is also a total bummer that there is no support for them anymore. There isn't a driver station for it. There aren't programming tools with the right plugins either.
In short, they are quite useless. The dropdown on the DS which presumable allows you to change driver station versions(?) doesn't seem to co-op with the old cRIO either.

If NI and WPI didn't drop support for the old cRIO entirely, it may be of some good use, especially while prototyping. I doubt every team has five RoboRIO's to run those small prototypes. In our team, only the programming team has access to our RoboRIO's because they are under continuous use. After all, the new RoboRIO is quite pricey.

Since we have two decent Classmates, I think we'll keep the older one "pure" for running our two cRIO bots. (The third cRIO we own might me more useful with the OP's use case; the useful ethernet port is damaged)

[Gweiss96]

We use our old cRios to operate our practice bots.

[tStano]

We dug up some laptops had been gathering dust (we got in 2010 ish once they were too old for a sponsor) and put the 2014 driver station on them. They run XP, so the new driver station won't work.

This is a good end for old XP laptops that aren't worth updating. I'm sure someone you know has one of those lying around. It was by far the easiest installation process of the year. The laptop battery's a little finnicky, but it really does great.

Its sad that this is the only way to make 6 years of robot work. I really hope NI/WPI releases a better solution in the future, but until then, I still get to use the only OS that doesn't give me problems, which I really quite enjoy.

[yash101]

Originally Posted by Christopher149

Since we have two decent Classmates, I think we'll keep the older one "pure" for running our two cRIO bots. (The third cRIO we own might me more useful with the OP's use case; the useful ethernet port is damaged)

That's exactly what we did. Our Classmate has a shot battery and isn't really fast enough to be desirable to code on, we decided to just keep it for driving the old robots. Once the old cRIO dies, we might as well get the new driver station

[mrnoble]

Those are some sweet looking mecanums there, I must say. Care to share anything about where those wheels came from?

[wasayanwer97]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

Those are some sweet looking mecanums there, I must say. Care to share anything about where those wheels came from?

They look like the AM Mecanum HD.

http://www.andymark.com/8in-Mecanum-...-p/am-2115.htm

[mrnoble]

Yup. The lighting made me think the rollers were gum-rubber colored.

[chmconkling]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

Yup. The lighting made me think the rollers were gum-rubber colored.

That would be them

[chmconkling]

Btw everyone. That cRio has been touchy on working the last few season, so she is no good.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by yash101

It's nice to have the old cRIOs available, but it is also a total bummer that there is no support for them anymore. There isn't a driver station for it. There aren't programming tools with the right plugins either.
In short, they are quite useless...If NI and WPI didn't drop support for the old cRIO entirely, it may be of some good use, especially while prototyping.

Last year's NI LabVIEW for FRC still creates programs; it does not expire. The driver station still works. We're using one of the 8-slot cRIOs for a mecanum testbed.

The 4-slot cRIOs are currently supported with this year's LabVIEW.