[PhilBot]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

Has anyone located a source for a receptacle and cable (multicolor ribbon, preferably) that mates to the 3 high x 20 wide bank of 0.1" I/O header pins on the Driver Station? I'd like to run a single cable connection to a custom button box and pick and choose which I/O I wish to use from inside the box.

I agree with your strategy, but I couldn't find such a cable.

During beta testing I made up a PCB that had header sockets that mated with the Driver Station and then had a 24pin ribbon cable connector.

You only need to connect to a few of the power/ground pins, so I used a 2x20 and a 4x1 connector. I wrote up a paper on getting it built. At the time I did the PCB I didn't know there were no internal pullups (D'OH)

This is the sort of thuing that takes a day to design and $60 and 3 days to get built from ExpressPCB.com.