Is the FIRST Touch PsoC Board the only option??

[Radical Pi]

Originally Posted by jhersh

If you want to use a different I/O board, you will have to write all of your own code to send the data to the robot and to access it on the robot, in addition to probably needing to write code for the board itself. It is not against the rules in general, though... you just have to follow any applicable rules.

-Joe

I was under the impression that the FMS would prevent communication to the robot that doesn't originate in the Driver Station program. Has this changed this year?

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by Radical Pi

I was under the impression that the FMS would prevent communication to the robot that doesn't originate in the Driver Station program. Has this changed this year?

You can see that in R50 they added that you may use UDP ports 1130 and 1140. This is in addition to the TCP port that was available last year (the "camera" port).

R52 states that all signals must come from the OPERATOR CONSOLE, not the Driver Station software.

If I recall UDP 1130 may be used for traffic from the Dashboard (Driver Station Ethernet network cable) to the Robot and UDP 1140 may used for traffic from the Robot to the Dashboard.

-Joe

[Radical Pi]

Originally Posted by jhersh

You can see that in R50 they added that you may use UDP ports 1130 and 1140. This is in addition to the TCP port that was available last year (the "camera" port).

Ah, I thought those were only allowed within the robot itself.

On a slightly related note, it is possible to connect two PSoC boards to the DS laptop and prevent one from being seen by the DS app via custom firmware, then use a custom driver to supplement the I/O ports we usually get?

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by Radical Pi

On a slightly related note, it is possible to connect two PSoC boards to the DS laptop and prevent one from being seen by the DS app via custom firmware, then use a custom driver to supplement the I/O ports we usually get?

I can't say I've ever tried that. I can't think of an easy way to do it. The DS may only read from the first one, but which one is the first one will probably not be something you have control over aside from unplugging the extra one every time you start the DS.