Come join us today, Saturday, December 12, on FIRSTtv at 1pm ET for a live tutorial and demonstration on ways of simulating real robot code written with WPILib. We are going to take a look at a new inexpensive way of getting experience writing robot programs by using a Romi Robot, how to run a robot program with no robot at all by using a virtual simulator, and much more!

For folks that do join us or are reviewing the video later, you might want to try some of the new features yourself. To do this, we have made available a special public beta release of the WPILib Suite. This beta release can be used for trying out the new simulator features but we recommend not updating your robots quite yet. You can find the tools here:

• WPILib Installer – https://github.com/wpilibsuite/allwpilib/releases/tag/v2021.1.1-beta-4
• WPILibPi (formerly FRCVision) Image – https://github.com/wpilibsuite/WPILibPi/releases/tag/v2021.1.1-beta-4

As always, if you have any feedback or you find something that doesn’t look quite right, please let us know on our GitHub page by opening an Issue or creating a Discussion.