Dashboard, OI <-> RC Checksum

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by seanwitte

It seems like a waste of time to reverse engineer a useless piece of information.

I wouldn't say useless. Useless during a match, perhaps, but there's some non-competition things that can be done. For example, in 2002 we built a miniaturized controller that plugged directly into the tether port on the robot and simulated an OI. It had just a couple of toggle switches on it to allow us to move the powered hooks on our robot. It was intended to be something that the drivers could carry in their pocket and take out on the field at the end of the match to unhook the robot from the goals without having to set up the whole OI and tether up. We ended up not using it during actual competitions but it was a neat little project.

I should find it and take a picture of it.