Competition Super Dongle

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by russell

Lol a "rogue team". I would think a more practical approach would be for IFI to just go ahead and give it to us (of course under the conditions that if you break anything you are responsible) and just bank on the fact that there wont be any "rogue teams". I really cant see blowing thousands of dollars and man hours in a robotics team, then going and doing something that would get you kicked out, and hopefully permanently banned from FIRST. If some team did do that then just kickem out, and get on with the competition. And dont give me something about their robot going crazy and hurting someone, the operators are behind windows that would stop a bullet, and everyone else is far enough away that they can get out of the way in plenty of time. Its not that there is absolutely no danger involved, its just that the chances of someone getting hurt (first you need a "rogue team" which is unlikely enough, then you need them to put a lot of time and energy into building a killer robot, then they need to have it actually work. If they can build this awesome killer robot why dont they just build a good robot and win the competition?) are thousands of times less than those of the human player getting hurt in last years competition.

It would be very helpful to a lot of teams, and more people would probably end of frying their OI so it would also make for increased profits too. In the end everyone is happy, except maybe the lawyers.

You forget: IFI sells gear to many different groups, including some whose members might not have the highest standards of gracious professionalism all the time.

Besides, the dongle pinout's enough for me. Disable, autonomous. What more do you need?