Classmate PC - Front Panel

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by RoboMaster

I highly doubt that they will get rid of the driver station and just use a computer. They just designed this whole new system for us and plus, now we can't easily hook up switches, LEDs, and lots of joysticks and such. Computers don't have PWM I/O ports.

Here's some pure speculation. NI said they've had a software drivers station for a long time. NI also makes a variety of data acquisition products, which provide digital and analog IO and hook up via usb. In fact, NI has provided them to teams before.

Thus, going to a software drivers station on a laptop doesn't mean that you have to give up IO options. I guess we'll have to see once the beta teams get theirs.