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Re: COTS Parts made just for FIRST Robots

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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson
3) Although IFI is probably about to redo the IO, I think it would be great to have some easy breakout board that would make customizing OI easier. I am thinking something that would plug into all the joystick ports but it would allow you to plug in 4 joysticks but you could use jumpers to map any of the joystick switches and pots to any of the joystick ports.

Also, I'd put a few LEDs on the board and some switches, along with a few slider pots and a few knobs and let those be patched in easily too.
I really like that idea.

What about dongles? $10 or so for a box with 2 switches (auto on/off, robot enable/disable) to plug into the competition port. I bet a lot of teams would buy that, especially rookies (1504 still hasn't gotten around to making ours).
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