Building an arena controller

[miketwalker]

If you did research through IFI and read the Robot Controller and Operator Interface manuals you would find that the LED colors are selected in the master controller based on which radio channel you use. This is as of 2004, and I do not believe they changed that this year. As for selecting channels, you can make switches for the competition ports (or interface them to a computer) to select the channels. Teams do it all the time for offseason competitions. It's all in documented resources on the Innovation First website if you look around, it's been done for years. If you can't find them, call IFI and they're very helpful. Autonomous and disabled are also simply shorting out 2 particular pins on the OI...
DISCLAIMER: IF YOU DO THIS AND MESS UP, YOU CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR OPERATOR INTERFACE, AND IT WILL NO LONGER BE COVERED UNDER WARRANTY. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE RESEARCHED BEFORE PLUGGING ANYTHING INTO THE COMPETITION PORT.