[EricH]

Originally Posted by levydev

Wonderful! I guess I've been making the wrong assumption in that the solution would only be FRC legal if the driver station is used as the sole conduit for sending instructions to the robot.
My impression now is that as long as the driver station is running, the team should be good to go.

Thanks for the quick responses!

David

I think your impression would not pass muster on a 2011 field. There is a collection of rules that would prohibit that. For 2012, this may change... but for 2011, the applicable rules were:
<R52> (All signals to the router on the robot had to originate with the field or the Operator Console, and no other router was legal.)
<R79> (No communication to, from, or within the Operator Console except for the field comm system.)
<R75> (The only thing allowed to communicate operating mode and state was a particular version of Driver Station software--device running it was up to the team.)
<R76> (Any device hosting the Driver Station software had to only connect via the provided Ethernet cable to the field communication system.)

So, if these rules don't change from last year, IMO, your impression is incorrect. If they do change, it may be correct or incorrect.