Competition Super Dongle

[JamesBrown]

I still dont see why it would be necessary to have a "super dongle" the dongle we use is a box with three labled switches, Auto, Practice and Power. Team color an easily be done just go to radioshack and buy a couple of blue and a couple of red led's. The power would not be any more compact if it was a power supply to the competition port than if it was going to the regular pin for the power. It is impractical for IFI to release anything more than they have done.

If you want to simulate problema and you use less than 4 joysticks then get the pinout for these joysticks and make a switch box that would attach to the pins for yaxis x axis and all of the buttons. Then in the code p4_y could do something like cut power to the motors or rest the circuit breakers. If I remember there are 12 different inputs for each joystick, 4 for the hat 2 each for the x and y axis 2 buttons on top, one button by the thumb and the trigger. by wiring these to switches and assigning a binary number to each possible thing to go wrong you could have 2^12 or 4096 different problems. The software would see what switches were open and what was closed and then simulate the problem. Doing this now would also give you a nice set of switches to use as preprogrammed arm posistions or to use to reset pots in competition. This may be a more practicle use of your time than building a "super dongle"