Digital to OI Analog

[Dave K.]

Originally Posted by marcan

I believe radios (other than the IFI ones) are only prohibited on the robot, not on the OI.

R66:

Notice that the Bluetooth communications stay within the Operator Console, and everything is channeled through the IFI radio. Thus, no other method other than the IFI radios is used to communicate "to or from the robot" (and certainly nothing within)

Either way though, we'll have alternative control methods available, both because of the possibility of having the Wiimote denied, and to see which is more practical. If nothing else, we can still use the Wiimote out of the field


Of course, it would work best when the load is constant or varies with a very low frequency (which will likely be the case of many control systems).


True. Not that I think it would really be that useful in competition, it's just something that would be easy to do just for kicks, given what we already have. I've written a custom dashboard that, besides doing what the original does, also shows stuff like the camera vision system data, and a couple other things, so adding it onto that would be fairly trivial.

At competition...

<R63>, <R66>, and Section 3.14.3, make it reasonably clear that other than the 900MHz radios, no wireless communication is permitted. The one exception is <R109>, but that doesn't apply here.

This may be helpful: http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread...ight=bluetooth