Introducing the roboRIO The 2015 Control System Introducing the roboRIO
Today’s Agenda New Hardware Setup of RoboRIO Differences in Programming New Software tools Q & A
The Hardware Touring the board
Hardware Specifications No more Digital Sidecar or Analog Module 10 PWM 4 relay ports 4 analog ports 1 I2C port 10 DIO ports 2 SPI 1 RS232 2 USB(type A) 1 RSL
Power Distribution Panel New Version of the PDB CAN Bus temperature current battery status 8 outputs for 40A 8 outputs for 30A 0 indexed
The PCM Replaces the solenoid module Enabled/Disabled over CAN Diagnostic information: solenoid state compressor state
Voltage Regulator Module Regulated 12V and 5V output Powered by 12V Can be used to power Radio IP Vision Cameras Other Custom Circuits Power over USB
Setup and Programming That New-Board Smell
Networking Can connect over: Bridge Configuration Utility mDNS USB Cannot configure over wireless
The roboRIO Web Interface Found at 177.22.11.2 The Browser must support Silverlight Lists CAN Devices Gives Access to the roboRIO file system Username: Admin Password: <blank>
roboRIO Imaging and Updating Use USB type B to type A cable Update over Web interface The imaging tool comes with the NI Install
Eclipse Both C++ and Java developers will use Eclipse as their IDE All eclipse users need to download the JDK All eclipse users should download the C/C++ version of eclipse
Software tools FRCSim SmartDashboard RobotBuilder Driver Station Need to run Ubuntu(Linux Distribution) SmartDashboard RobotBuilder Driver Station
Questions and maybe some answers