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Re: IFI Secrets?

To Miketwalker: I have read the manuals. The system you are talking about sets the LED colors based on the channels that teams can set on the channel switches. There are only two channels that have a blue color, therefore Triple Play wouldn't work that well... Also, the goal was to see if we could set the channel externally without the hassle involved (changing the team number MSB and getting every team to change their channel switches correctly).

To dez250: The reason we are doing this is 95% for the fun of hacking together (the good sense of the word) the back-end control system, not to have official stuff. We also don't have any money :-)

Note that the OI doesn't HAVE to receive power from the Arena Controller---we would have them bring their bricks to plug in. Same goes for the radio modems, we would have teams do it the old way.

We merely would have this system _available_ in the case we want to have an off-season event. As a programmer and electrical person, I would be doing it for the fun of it.

Also, no offense, but enough with the disclaimers. I have seen an OI blow up because of a miswired comp port dongle. We will be taking precautions and doing extensive testing before actually using the system with other teams' OI's.
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