Field Electronics

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I hope you were not representing yourself as someone who had received authorization from the proper channels at FIRST to receive these documents. As for recreating a field completely from photos, instruction manuals, and a list of hardware components you still are biting off a task larger than you are thinking it is. The software that runs the multiple PLC units and firmware on the router are custom and not just regular pieces of software that is available off the web.

I would suggest you take some time and do some research into the old NASA Field that was run by Mike Wade before he passed away. Mike had the desire to have a field that he could truck around the east coast and Mid-Atlantic region of the US to host off season events and pre-ship scrimmages. After researching and working with a real FIRST field he decided it was more work to reinvent the wheel exactly as it was and came up with his own version of the field that did what he needed with a bunch of toggle switches. Albeit this was in the IFI days when dongles were able to be used with the OI's, the same could be done today.

I would suggest running with what has previously suggested, and if you really need a field for more than just some here and there practice, to use a couple switches, routers, a bunch of ethernet cables, and FMS Lite. The stress and cost you will encounter while trying to recreate a FIRST field, will be more than that to rent one if you try to have everything there that is exact as the FIRST fields have.