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Originally Posted by ZacharyDiaz

Any thoughts of a way to make TwitchPlaysSTEAMworks happen?

If you had a program running on the Driver Station laptop that took in IRC inputs and emulated a joystick, you would be able to do it pretty well. You could also run an IRC client on the robot, set up the router to act as a bridge to a WiFi network connected to the internet, and run it as an autonomous program. (or bypass WPILib's safety entirely and put it in RobotInit if you wanted to get even less safe than this already will be) I would also recommend turning down the speed of the drivetrain so it doesn't get damaged by bumping into things.

You would need a fenced-in field to make it more safe, and you'll need an E-Stop button on hand. I assume you wouldn't have access to a FMS, so scoring would need to be done manually or by replicating the scoring system used by the game and hooking it up to an Arduino that sends serial to the streaming PC to update a scoreboard overlay on the stream if you wanted to.