Alternatives to RoboRIO or Robot Controllers

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Originally Posted by jreneew2

The good thing about that solution is that you can really easily set up actuators and motors like you said. I like that aspect a lot. Is there a way to mount an IMU or something like that? I see some breakout modules on the site. I assume we could hook up an IMU through DIO or something like that.

Sorry forgot to answer....

As far as IMU, we're supporting our CAN based Pigeon IMU for HERO/roboRIO in the same fashion we support the other CAN devices. So think class object for PigeonImu, just like there is a class object for CANTalon or PCM. Documentation coming soon.
http://www.ctr-electronics.com/gadge...le-pigeon.html