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Originally Posted by Workaphobia
This hasn't proven very useful to my team, however. For some reason, the led drivers are controlled by the exact same variables that control the normal leds embedded on the OI, making them totally redundant. You're better off just using the OI leds and not worrying about making an adapter for the port.
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Sometimes you want to have the lights next to what you are controlling or in a particular order. We had lights next to some switches so people will know what mode the robot is in better. We also had LEDs set up as a main battery indicator and needed the LEDs in a virtical row with certain colors. This made it better to know at a glance what the battery was like. It isn't really necessary in the compitition, but is nice in demonstrations. And it looks cool to have LEDs sticking out of dimond plating with built in switches...
