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Originally Posted by jzampier
Also from what I know about the Arena system:
The arena actually functions over ethernet (hardwired).
Each alliance station actually has a private IP address
(man... it was pretty cool to ping an alliance station  ).
So here's the setup (on each side):
3 Arena Controllers somehow have an ethernet interface.
Each AC appeared to have 5 ports of interest:
1. 1 ports for Competition controllers
2. 1 Comm Port
3. 1 Power port |
So, after the Arena Controllers, everything is done on computers? Like, there aren't any more small rectangular black boxes from IFI labeled "Uber-Master-Multiplex Controller" etc?
In that case, the AC would handle just about everything... oh well.
Before I directly email IFI, if anyone working for or related to IFI is reading this, what is your feeling? Should I stop this right now or is it ok?
If there is an easy way to set team color, that would be neat. It's interesting that autonomous and disable are plain digital switches, instead of being part of a serial data stream. Did they intentionally break off those two to let teams build competition adapter dongles? Does this mean that any other functions (read-light color) are plain digital inputs?