competition cable

[Josh Hambright]

Originally Posted by Idaman323

is the competition cable just a custom made serial cable? If so, how long does it need to be?

Like stated above, the competition cable is not something you have to worry about making, and like stated above it is at every driver station and plugs into the competition port of your OI.

The only thing you have to do as far as the competition port goes is make sure that you can plug and unplug the cable from the port, and that nothing else is connected into the port, piggy backing, splitting, or extending the port, the cable must be plugged directly into the port during FIRST sanctioned competition.

The competition port is what IFI's field controller uses to control your robot, it controls color, channel, autonomous, user control, disable, etc. Some of the features of this port have been documented although much of it is still a mystery as IFI doesn't want the information released publicly. Search for 'competition port' or 'dongle' on here and you can probably find more info about the port if your interested.