[billbo911]

Originally Posted by jerry w

i am not impressed.!
you have all missed the most obvious clues with this board. you keep trying to fasten it to the robot.

clues
1. the power available from a robot controller is +7.2 and +5 volts.
the power for a field component is usually a 12 volt battery.
this board runs on 5 volts but requires between 7 and 15 volts!!

So I guess the 12vdc battery on the robots is just there for counter balance?

Originally Posted by jerry w

2. the ribbon cable is not configured anywhere like a digital connection on the controller.

If you noticed by looking at the picture of the board, the connector on one end of the cable connects to the board at the matching plug. The other end of the cable is not terminated, allowing us to come up with our own connections designs to the RC.

Originally Posted by jerry w

3. the learning of a remote allows the newton field to use different codes from the curie field.
if each team had to learn an alliance partner code it would take too much time between matches.

4. there are 4 outputs from the board. there are 4 corners on the field. 2 red remotes and 2 blue remotes would allow teams to trigger 4 release mechanisms.

we have cmu-cam to collect data. now we will have IR remotes on the robot to send data to the field.!!
please put this board on the field where it belongs.

jerry w

The rest of these speculations are distinctly possible.
I really would love to see more ideas on this thread about this boards possible uses, as long as they make sense based on what we know already.