Thread: Makin' a home-brewn dashboard program, and I need theory help!
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I know quite a few of the teams used the LED control byte(and sometimes just taped over the corresponding LEDs on the OI), to feed data back...it is possible, however, that when the new-generation control system comes out(by 2004, I've heard), that the dashboard structure will be different.

[EDIT]Something else to keep in mind, as well, is that without updating the default code and the firmware in the master CPU, the only data that currently gets output from the user control program anyway is the 9 LEDs(basic run + LED control byte) and the PWM/Relay outputs.[/EDIT]
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