CAN Help

[flamespinner]

How do you program CAN for Jags and Talons? I have never used CAN before, and i'm completely lost. And It dosn't help that I am new to programming anything past basic Pneumatics and RobotDrive. Could Someone please help me?

[ozrien]

How do you program CAN for Jags and Talons? I have never used CAN before, and i'm completely lost. And It dosn't help that I am new to programming anything past basic Pneumatics and RobotDrive. Could Someone please help me?

Here's the FRC screensteps. I would just search using the search bar for programming help...
http://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/4485

Also checkout the Talon SRX software ref manual for SRX specific examples....
http://www.crosstheroadelectronics.com/control_system.html

[BradAMiller]

There are two CAN Talon SRX sample programs included with the plugins that you should look at. One, "CAN Talon SRX" does a simple voltage controlled example. The other more interesting sample, "CAN Talon SRX PID" uses PID control in the Talon to control a motor from a potentiometer input that you might use, for example, to make an elevator that would lift game objects to a particular level.

To get those samples from Eclipse, select New Project..., then "Example Robot C++ Project", then choose one of the two samples described above.

These are both very simplified programs to show the basics of using the Talon SRXs and not how you might write a complete much more complex program. There are a bunch of other samples and ScreenSteps documentation to help with that.