2009 DS Help!!!

[techhelpbb]

Mmmm scrap used parts.
Dismantle, find data sheets and have fun.

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by techhelpbb

Mmmm scrap used parts.
Dismantle, find data sheets and have fun.

You might be able to use the display screen for something. Other than that, it goes on the "Wall of Fame/Shame".

It was the first DS that allowed use of USB joysticks and devices.

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by billbo911

You might be able to use the display screen for something. Other than that, it goes on the "Wall of Fame/Shame".

It was the first DS that allowed use of USB joysticks and devices.

...natively. The USB Chicklet allowed supported USB joysticks and devices to connect to the old IFI OI's gameport connectors.

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by Billfred

...natively. The USB Chicklet allowed supported USB joysticks and devices to connect to the old IFI OI's gameport connectors.

Yep, you're right. I forgot about that little kluge.

[ozrien]

Originally Posted by billbo911

Yep, you're right. I forgot about that little kluge.

Kluge? I was kinda proud of the USB-Chicklet...

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourcei...=UTF-8#q=kluge

[Taggerun]

One last question how do I connect the 09' DS to the robot??
Thanks,
Taggerun

[MrForbes]

It was originally connected (wirelessly) with a router and a bridge.



or a LAN cable to tether it.

[Taggerun]

Ok but how do the two routers connect to each other??

[MrForbes]

Have you searched for the documentation on the 2009 FRC control system?

[Taggerun]

Originally Posted by MrForbes

Have you searched for the documentation on the 2009 FRC control system?

Yah but the FIRST archive site was bringing me many 404's when looking for game documentation. Any ideas of team websites that might help??

[Taggerun]

Originally Posted by Taggerun

Yah but the FIRST archive site was bringing me many 404's when looking for game documentation. Any ideas of team websites that might help??

Anybody??

[Mark McLeod]

Here are the 2009 benchtop steps:

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Taggerun

One last question how do I connect the 09' DS to the robot??

Grab a Classmate, make sure that the robot's cRIO and the Classmate are running compatible software from any year between '10 and '14, and follow those instructions as far as radios. Send the blue box to the "scrap parts" bin. You don't need the blue box to talk to the cRIO. That's why the Classmate was used starting in 2010 (though many teams tossed that too, once the computer restrictions were opened up). Yes, it's an interesting challenge. But doing it is probably going to require locating the '09 cRIO firmware versions, as that particular DS wasn't used past that year, at all.

As was touched on, there were a large number of issues with that little blue box, as nice as it was in terms of size. The biggest one is that every single one of them had to be fitted with a grounding cable after Week 1 events to deal with static discharge, er, taking the path of greatest damage.