IFI released information about the kill and channel selection options early on - Dr Joe's Yellow Dongle paper was out not long after First started using the new controller. You can have off season comps, and test your robot with this info.
The info about the auton_mode and the way to use it for testing iwhile required for testing programming, is new this year, so has not been released until this year.
IFI releases info to allow you to do things you must do to get ready for the contest, but the rest is proprietary, For instance, the standards for the communications between OI and arena controller are still clouded in secrecy, and no one is talking about pin 1 ....
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