[Al Skierkiewicz]

Many teams have tried in some way to get around the rules on this but the rule book is pretty specific about hooking things to the OI. I don't think that will change in the future but it would be pretty cool. Of course, one more thing for the electrical and software teams to do. If the OI at some point in the future added a few open collector or opto isolator outputs capable of some current and if the rules committee were to allow a second power source at the OI this would turn out some very interesting ideas.