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Re: is it legal to have LEDs on robot

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz View Post
How?
Not my area of expertise, but it is possible, here is an example of decoding morse code from a flashing light.
Implement similar code on the Crio or a processor change the camera and light to the IR band, and bang you got one way communication to an IR receiver on the robot.
Obviously more complicated then a prebuilt IR receiver, but doable.
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And if it is on the bot able to receive during a match, it would definitely fail.
This was all originally a response to this quote, just because something could be used to receive communication doesn't mean it should be illegal by default.
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