FRC Competition Control System

[Triscuit]

Yeah, I know how to change team numbers and such for untethered practice with other teams, I'm just curious if someone has made their own version of the competition system that controls all the robots on the field and has plans for it that they could share.

[tdlrali]

Well, it's pretty easy to wire a global disable/autonomous switch, but since the competition port protocol is proprietary, i don't think that channel switching is possible (other than the team-number-MSB trick).

[popo308]

Originally Posted by tdlrali

Well, it's pretty easy to wire a global disable/autonomous switch, but since the competition port protocol is proprietary, i don't think that channel switching is possible (other than the team-number-MSB trick).

no.. one of our previous mentors created one but we used the wrong power supply or something and it burnt up.... but it did everything from changing channels to disabling individual robots and even setting the team color led for red or blue alliance

[tdlrali]

That's pretty cool!

Too bad the rest of us will never figure out the protocol

[Triscuit]

Originally Posted by popo308

no.. one of our previous mentors created one but we used the wrong power supply or something and it burnt up.... but it did everything from changing channels to disabling individual robots and even setting the team color led for red or blue alliance

Can you or your team contact him? And do you guys still have that old system around? If so, maybe you could post a few photos of it and write what it looks like he to it to make it work.

[EricH]

One thing I remember about the 2006 SCRRF scoring/field control unit is that the whole thing ran with a laptop (visual display) and a VEX controller. I'm just not sure how. You still had to bring your own radio, though.