paper: The HERO for FRC

[marshall]

Originally Posted by nuclearnerd

Thanks! This is timely, as we're deciding how to keep our demo robots running without forking out $500 for another roborio.

Thanks! We have been trying to get out there for teams exactly for that reason. It's a great choice for that... at least it was for us.

Originally Posted by Cothron Theiss

So what advantages does the HERO offer over the cRIO? Is this just a cheaper alternative for non-competition bots or is this a possible replacement for the cRIO?

Also, this is great work from what I can tell. (Though my extent of electrical and programming knowledge is that it's basically all sorcery, so who knows?)

• It's cheaper.
• It's supported now (not that the cRIO isn't but it wasn't for us... the 2CAN LabVIEW drivers/libraries for the cRIO are kinda busted now).
• It's cheaper.
• It doesn't require a driver station to run.
• It's a lot simpler to wire up.
• It allows you to use Talon SRXs with it via CAN.
• It's cheaper.

Yeah, there is a lot to like.