Using an Andymark Arduino on a robot.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

Unless you need a larger number of ports, there isn't much you can do on the Arduino that you can't do with just the 'RIO. We controlled some RGB LEDs on our robot last year using a couple of relay ports and spikes, though we could have used 12V relay modules given the small current draw of the LED strips.

The roboRIO can't control neopixel LEDs, which can do much more then the LED strips you used.

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

If you do need an Arduino, I agree that USB is most likely your comms path of choice, because it is supported by hardware buffering and canned software classes on both sides of the connection.

What USB library do you suggest for the roboRIO?