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Originally Posted by TomBot
Also, R60N seems kind of silly. According to the rules, I can buy or build any HID compliant USB device to hook up to the driver's station, but I cannot use the FirstTouch (which is most likely a safer/easier avenue than building any custom electronics). Why the draconian restriction?
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I believe you would be disappointed at the very next step if R60N didn't exist and you were to try use the Cypress board for what you are talking about. You would find out that the USB interface has nothing to do with the PSoC and that Cypress does not release the code for the processor that does. The First Touch Kit 3 board cannot implement HID (given the publicly available resources). The interface had to be implemented in a very non-generic way and the other end of this binary interface (the Driver Station software) you have no access to change. Because of this, allowing you to customize the firmware would gain rather little flexibility compared with the opportunity for frustration and failure. I don't believe the idea was simply to play Draco for the sake of it.