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Re: how to run auto?

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Originally Posted by Chaos in a Can (Post 728265)

We had a held button activate autonomous and learned one important thing.
If your code looks like

Code:

autonomous_mode = p3_sw_aux1;

, you may want to consider removing that line before your first match.

Yep, I found one team doing that. They were real disappointed when their robot wouldn't move at all during autonomous on the playing field, but would in the pit.

Re: how to run auto?

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Originally Posted by Matt H. (Post 728286)

Please dont use a paper clip to short out the pins. We still have a fried OI from when our first club president decided we didn't need a dongle. Shorting the wrong pins could leaving you with out a method to test your autonomous code period.

AndyMark sells a very nice dongle for a reasonable price. It can be found here http://www.andymark.biz/am-0016.html

Or make it yourself, which saves you the hassle of having to wait for it to come in the mail. If you have a radio shack nearby, look for a switch, and a 15 pin soldering connector. Wire the 8th and 5th pins to the switch, put it on a box (we used a cardboard box, just to give you an example). We added a disable-robot switch as well, using the 6th pin. Don't know if you'd want that.