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Who Knows?
I think the intention of FIRST in allowing teams to wire joystick ports was to encourage people to build from scratch using potentiometers and swtiches.. to develop their own controller..(Note well, no other components have been allowed on the OI side... the digikey components are, at this time, ROBOT side only...and pulling parts out of a different style controller would not be legal, so don't try to sneak them by...).. BUT this year's rules would make the Team 234 control system Illegal under the rules... I don't remember if it was illegal last year, but I remember seeing it in competition and wondering how they got away with it. Still I was relying on Gracious Professionalism by team 234 to self-police and left it at that. We had two similar controllers ...completely built from scratch... but had abandoned ball control in our strategy so neither system was used.
Anyway, Please don't be offended if other's call you on a rules violation. I, myself, intend to be a bit more vigilant this year and push FIRST to stick to it's own rules without being overly picky, (that includes the $100.00 limit but it's in the rules so you know that) so...no bending the rules... it's not gracious.
Best wishes
Steve Alaniz
"What good is technology if you can't abuse it?" - Ted Forth
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