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Re: Co processor Question
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Originally Posted by cad321 View Post
How would you go about communicating with this? There is no ethernet port on it, only Bluetooth and wifi both of which are illegal to use in competition.
It has a USB port on it... wrong direction though! Connecting it to the RIO would connect two hosts together... which is like plugging a mouse into another mouse. A custom driver for the USB port would have to be written, I guess. Seems like less work to just use a r-pi
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