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Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday
I wouldn't say useless. Useless during a match, perhaps, but there's some non-competition things that can be done. For example, in 2002 we built a miniaturized controller that plugged directly into the tether port on the robot and simulated an OI. It had just a couple of toggle switches on it to allow us to move the powered hooks on our robot. It was intended to be something that the drivers could carry in their pocket and take out on the field at the end of the match to unhook the robot from the goals without having to set up the whole OI and tether up. We ended up not using it during actual competitions but it was a neat little project.
I should find it and take a picture of it.
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Dave,
Now that's pretty cool, I hadn't even thought of something like that. Given that the FIRST rules are fairly explicit about not permitting ancillary circuits in output paths, your teams solution was quite elegant.
In any event, how about taking a picture of the relevant portion of the code that would have had to have computed the two check bytes ;-)
Thanks,