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Originally Posted by vinnie
Has anyone tried using a different type of microcontroller for the control board other than the Cypress? My team and I are going to write our own dashboard program and I would like to use an interface that is more familiar to me like an Arduino. Does anyone know if this is even acceptable in the rules?
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For a dashboard program, anything goes.
It sounds like you're talking about the driver station program, though. I expect that next year's rules will let you use whatever hardware you want as a controller, so long as it connects to the Driver Station using only USB. I also expect that the required DS software will work only with the provided breakout board (i.e. Cypress) and with controllers which implement the USB HID protocol (e.g. joysticks). So if things don't end up significantly more restrictive than I believe they will be, USB HID is basically your only constraint.