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Re: repurpose of kwikbyte DS

AndyMark is sold out now. I assume this since they don't have it listed any more, however I did find a lot of really cool info on it last night. Firstly I opened it up and noticed that it is in fact powered by an ARM processor. I confirmed this by going to Kwikbyte's website and looking at the specs. Then I noticed a link to "Driver Station Challenges". Pretty much it looks like they designed this thing to be hacked providing instructions and necessary equipment to upload information to the flash on it. They even have instructions on how to change how it boots (specifically how to change the logo it shows). It really looks like they had this in mind from the start, yet stopped setting everything up right about Kickoff time in 2009. While yes it still works with the robot, why couldn't we hack it to be a robot controller? It would be funny to have two of these on either end of the link, one telling the other what to do, and the other doing it.
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