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Re: Talons without libraries?

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
I suspect that you wouldn't be able to get it to work with CAN using your own controller. A security/safety feature requires special communication from the Driver Station through the roboRIO in order to enable the output.

The Talon SRX is supposed to support SPI and I2C, at least according to the initial information sheet. However, I have never seen any documentation telling how to use those communication protocols.
Dang, that's even worse. A friend of mine recommended I use a CAN controller IC, but I need to read up a lot more on CAN before I make that jump.
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