[Rickertsen2]

Alright... I have a correction for my above post. Instead of hooking the common pin to +5v, hook it to ground. This is because all of the inputs on the robot controller have pullup resistors. This means that whenever nothing is hooked up to them(or an open circuit is hooked up to them), a resistor "pulls" them to +5v. If you were to hook 5v to them, nothing woud happen. Instead, you have to hook them to ground to change the state of the imputs. Basically whenever you hook them to ground, ie:through a switch, the pullup is overpowered and they are brought to ground.