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Originally Posted by King Nerd III

NavX MXP no longer functions with the roboRIO. My team purchased a couple to use this year, but the 2016 firmware for the roboRIO breaks it. We have contacted the creators to ask if they are planning on fixing this, but the understanding we have is that no, it will not be updated in the foreseeable future which means it can't really be used this year...

Please note: this statement is largely inaccurate.

The navX-MXP does work w/the RoboRIO. However, I believe what is being referred to here is that the USB interface between RoboRIO and navX-MXP is not working (it stopped working once the new 2016 RoboRIO firmware was released).

However, the navX-MXP has a total of four electrical interfaces: SPI, I2C, TTL UART as well as USB.

Therefore, the navX-MXP works very well with SPI, I2C and TTL UART w/the 2016 RoboRIO.

King Nerd III, please feel free to contact us directly at support@kauailabs.com and we'll help you get your boards working on one of these three other interfaces.