[Josh Hambright]

Sorry to hear that you fried an OI coputhief, and yes building a dongle is not something that should be taken lightly. But if you take your time and you check your work after your done and if you have knowlege of soldering and wiring it shouldn't be that bad.

I built 4 dongles in 1 hour last week because we had to do a demo with some other teams and we weren't sure if they had enough dongles for everyone so we just took em with us.

One easy thing that you can do if you want to build dongles for competitions with more then 1 team is to just hardwire in the multichannel function. Its 1 less switch to have to worry about. Then you just have a switch for autonomous and a switch for disable.

Currently I am working on my own homebrew competition controller, that can control autonomous and disable from one box, we talked about having a program and interfacing it to run the whole thing off of a computer so you could have timers controlling the stuff, haven't decided yet if i will take the leap and try to power them though as that seems a bit risky.

Good luck with your dongles.