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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
What issues did you have with the cypress board?
Did you use the xbox 360 controller and a separate board for the codriver? How does he handle both?
Also, for future reference, we used several eStop breakout boards this year and were very happy with them. They worked great, and were trivial to wire up.
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-We had an issue on the Classmate where, on about 1 out of 10 cold boots of the laptop, the Cypress driver would fail to start. The only way to fix this was to completely reboot the laptop, as we couldn't manually start the driver as the Driver account was locked down. Sometimes, it would fail again, and we would have to reboot again. We eventually got in a habit of starting the laptop at least 3 matches ahead of time in case we had to reboot (possibly twice) if necessary. We didn't realize this until our first competition, and *almost* lost a match when we were unable to kick. I don't know if the issue has been resolved, but the solution now would be to open Task Manager and restart the process.
-The operator holds the 360 controller, which contains the commonly used buttons. The other controller is a box, which sticks to the operator console. As the only in-match button is Score Low, she just reaches down and hits it with one hand.