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Re: Non joystick control?

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Originally Posted by compwiztobe View Post
Has anyone ever played around enough to see (or just knows) if the driver station/FMS framework could support sending keyboard info/events to the robot, such as by modifying (or writing a new one from scratch) the driver station runtime? I assume that as soon as the driver station software is modified its no longer legal, but just curious.
The drive station isn't open source. I think there have been some open source, team generated duplicates of it that could accomplish that, but it would be easier to write the code on the dashboard to use a free port to send the data.
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