[meltbox360]

Hello everyone. This is our teams first year in FTC and we have run into some problems getting started on the programming side. I have read quite of few of the guides and the problem I have run into is that no matter what I try the Jaguar motor controller blinks yellow which indicated that it is not initialized in the code. These are the steps that I have taken so far:

1. Connected everything as shown in the "Getting Started with the 2012 FRC Control System pdf. (There is a small problem with the document. On page 13 it shows the motor controller connected to the white PWM pins on the sidecar while on page 11 it shows it connected to the black pins which I believe are for sensors or spikes from what I've read.)

2. My setup has one difference. There is only one Jaguar motor controller connected. It is connected under PWM 1 on the sidecar.

3. Flashed the cRIO successfully and assigned it the correct IP address.

4. Compiled a program after downloading the WPIlib file that was missing.
(I was using the simple robot template for this.)

5. Uploaded it to the cRIO.

6. Power cycle.

7. Run autonomous and driver control from the driver station.

After modifying the code in countless ways I still have had no success. I have tried changing the class to iterativerobot as well as using the Jaguar class with no success.

I was wondering if anyone could shoot some code my way with a few examples of how to get this working. I'm sure its something simple I'm overlooking. I was also wondering if anyone could tell me or point me to a document that explains what CAN is and what the advantages and disadvantages of it are?

Any help is appreciated!