Dashboard Port Decoder

[whytheheckme]

If I had a 2003 OI hooked to the 2003 FRC, could I still have data in from the 2006 dashboard port? Wouldn't the OI be taking the tether port which is where i would have data coming in? Could I take the data from the dashboard port on the 2006 OI and send it to a digital input on the 2003 FRC? Why does the 2003 FRC require a OI if I am using the other data as an "OI"? I guess I am just clinging on to hopeless thoughts here. I am probably going to have to get an EDU-BOT PIC controller. If I got one, how would I interface the data from the dashboard port in C (there is no SERIN in C, at least not that I know of.)

Jacob Komar

Revised Comments:
I guess I overlooked part of your previous post. If I used a previous years FRC, that would be all that I need. How would I specify what I want the input to be on the serial port though, if I'm programming it in C? That would be easy in PBASIC, because I could specify it using SERIN. I am not greatly familiar with C, so maybe there is a way to port the bytes to variables.