Tethering up

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Originally posted by tritium


That sounds pretty cool and all but how do you do that without using the OI board? I know we could use something like that. In the Long Island regional in the elimination rounds I had to run like crazy all over the place with the controls. From the station to the robot, back to the station, and what not.

5 min solution:
You do need the oi, if the punp is your only concern , just tape the oi to a old battery w/ nothing on it (we used a big wire tie and duck tape for a handle and velcrowed the oi in the battery, you dont need to plug anything into any port besides the tether) , then put the tether to the oi while using that old battery to charge it instead of the one on the bot (to save power) then just disconnect the battery and oi and recconnect the match battery, that way you will be charged in 2 respects Plus you can leave everything plugged untill right before the match, so no worry foe leaks.