Selecting Autonomous with TI LaunchPad?

[team-4480]

Hi,

We are going to make a nice control box with random buttons and potentiometers using the TI MSP430 LaunchPad. We want to be able to select an autonomous mode with a dial using one of the potentiometers through the LaunchPad.

The problem is, how do I send what the choice is to the robot if the LaunchPad is seen as a gamepad?

Should I write a pygame script and use pynetworktables to send the choice from it? Or is there a much simpler way that I am overlooking? How do other teams do it?

Any help would greatly be appreciated!