How can Arduinos be integrated with the current electronic/control system?

[NerdRage]

Our team has interfaced an Arduino Mega to the RoboRio, through what I believe was the rX/tX pins of the Arduino (not sure, I wasn't in charge of that). We made sure to power the Arduino not through the Rio, but instead through a voltage step-down converter through the power expander. You have to go this route if you want to go LED strips, otherwise I can't think of anything else that would supply the amperage.

[Tom Line]

Another option if you aren't locked into an Arduino is a CTRE Hero.

http://www.ctr-electronics.com/control-system/hro.html

[marccenter]

Tom,

Is there a link somewhere that discusses the pros/cons of the CTRE HERO development board vs the Aruduino family for those of us beginning down this embedded controller path?

I do have embedded controller experience but have been happy with the cRIO for FRC applicatons but would like to add vision processing to our FRC robot and the raspberry PI path seems to have some support.