[dekker120]

(Assistant mentor, posting through this account)

I've done some fairly extensive testing, and come to the conclusion that there's probably a hardware problem within the driver's station box. The driver station relays network information perfectly--to the extent that I can ping the robot and receive a response with 100% success rate, and no lag whatsoever--but it cannot seem to generate a signal on its own.

Anything that involves sending signal from the driver station to the NI board fails--the driver station receives periodic battery readings once about every 10 seconds, indicating that it can receive signal from the NI board. Likewise, all cables are attached properly, and the computer I'm writing from (communicating through the driver station, router, receiver, and to the NI board) can communicate with the NI board flawlessly. The only thing left that could be wrong (IMHO) is the driver station.