[Jeff McCune]

Originally posted by Ian W.
isn't the user mode controlled THROUGH the competition port, which is completely covered by the competition "teather" (i don't know what it's called, but it provides power, so i'll call it a teather ). unless you cut that open, and touch a few leads together, you can't alter the user_mode bit, cause it's part of the PB_mode byte, which is controlled by the referees. so, that leaves you without a bit to control what's going on in your robot...

When you push the select button on the Operator Interface until you have a u_000 or whatever, that's changing the user_mode bit of PB_mode. The OI will have power during autonomous operation. Furthermore, from the pinout of the competition port they don't have controll over the entire PB_mode byte. Just the autnomous mode. I could be wrong, and they do actually have control over the entire byte, so they simply need to force the user_mode bit to something constant. I guess I could just play around with the competition port and see if I can toggle user mode from it...