[Alan Anderson]

The robot can't read the Dashboard directly, but the Dashboard can send data to the robot. You'll have to open a UDP (or TCP) socket on the robot, and send to that socket from the Dashboard program.

It might be easier to use the Cypress PsoC I/O that the Driver Station and WPIlib routines already support. You don't have to have a physical switch; the I/O tab on the Driver Station gives you access to an array of emulated on/off switches and analog values.