[Jake M]

Well, with our season over, it's time to start thinking about next year. One thing we want to start working on within the next couple weeks is a test RC system; basically a fully functional robot with only the electronics. With it w can test motors and other such things, but mainly we want it to be able to develop code for the camera, gyro, and other sensors, both in and out of the season. In addition to this, we think it would be really cool if we could build a physical, rather than digital, dashboard, utilizing the RS 232 dashboard port, a set of LEDs and numerical displays that works just like the dashboard program and built into our test system.

Obviously, the biggest obstacle to overcome is building a circuit to receive and process the RS 232 data, which the other students and I don't know much about at all. Our mentors would likely know a lot, but we'd like to find out as much as we can on our own first If anyone here can point us to some good RS 232 documentation, has any other comments or suggestions, or has done something like this themselves, we'd really appreciate it if you could tell us about it. If it hasn't been done before, or at least not to such an extent, we'll document it as much as possible once we build it.

Thanks in advance.