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Originally posted by Joe Ross
Remember that we only have documentation of 4 pins of the competition port. We know that there is a power pin on there somewhere, but don't know which one. We also know that they have some way of setting the channel, becasue they do it at the competitions, irregardless of the dip switches on the front of the OI. So basically, there are more things that we don't know about the competition port then we do know. It would be very easy for them to give us a completely different interface then they use at the competitions (the already do this with the channel setting).
So basically, we don't really know :-)
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Pin 1 is for the power. I know it because I was fooling around with the pins and when I touched pin one with a keychain, sparks flied out of pins, and the OI reset itself. However I can't build one that provides power, because it could void the warrantee, and the OI isn't cheap.
I was always been finding a way to build a dummy arena controller, with power and switching the channels to the ones more than what can be provided by the channel select on the OI.
However I know when you power the OI from the cable, you get all that functionality plus more.
As for loopholes in the programming, well there are always loops in software, nothing is 100%. However you will be caught, and it won’t look good for your team.