[MattRain]

Nothing in the Game Manuals this year that we we can find say that you cant use the LEDs for a fuctional use.

Now ways of going about it, there are different ways, three of which are below.

1. Prototype Board

2. Motor Port.
The Motor Port idea is something that my team used in the GET OVER IT challenge a few years back. We used an LED tower that we made in the center of the robot to tell us if we had a magnetic baton. Since we could control all 5 of our batons one by one, as it moved closer to the release point, the leds would strobe faster and faster, until it was the baton about to go out, then it was a solid red. We did this all by connecting the wires into one extra motor port we had, and had that "motor" run in the background. That year we went all the way to the WORLD Championships, and past inspection and everything with it.

3. Its own circut.
Last year we had our claw set up with some conductive metal, with rubberbands in the bottom, and if a weighted ring sat on it, it had enough pressure to push it down, which would then complete the circut. All it was was a 9-volt battery velcroed to the back of the claw, wire that ran to the metal(Which was the "switch"), then to the led. And Boom, light! An orange and purple LED for either the back ring or front ring in the claw.