[Rick TYler]

I just posted a pic of our RIO's console here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23545?. All of these controls were routed through Port 3 on the OI. I am especially pleased that students figured out all the pin-outs and wired the connecters all by themselves (they stayed up to 3am at Nathan's house doing it one night). I was awestruck that everything worked on the first try.

Sharp observers of controls will note the AUTON knob. It really has nothing to do with autonomous. It was meant for another function that was rendered excess to requirements by last-second mentoring. It's a long story.

Other sharp observers will note the LED clusters that are clearly too large for the 10 milliamps available. The big LED's are powered by four "D" cells, controlled by DPDT switches. One side of the switch is wired to the OI, the other just turns the indicator lights on. This was a student innovation to allow us to have big, bright lights without violating the rules about the OI driving high-current devices.

Oh, yeah. Copper really shows fingerprints...