Off board processor?

[Donut]

Originally Posted by Jeff Waegelin

This is always important to keep in mind. That being said, the rules don't usually change that much, and FIRST's trend has been to liberalize the rules, not make them more restrictive. So, if you were to design and prototype a custom circuit using this year's rules, chances are your design would still be legal next year (or require only minor modifications).

Yeah, FIRST tends to stick the same with most rules like this, but I just wanted to make sure everyone keeps this in the back of their minds.

Out of curiosity, is it currently legal to attach a seperate processor to the OI to create additional outputs (using the dashboard as a serial output to it)? I mean this processor would just display extra data from the dashboard port (yes I know you can do this with computers being allowed this year too), it would not have any joysticks or any inputs hooked up to it as the dashboard port is a one way street.