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Originally Posted by Tom Line
HA!
We tried to use our E-stop button about a year ago (the old style). We discovered that I had been a little over-zealous hot-gluing it down. Evidently, we had gone to multiple competitions with an E-stop button that was about as useful as a paperweight.
ON another note (to National Instruments), PLEASE PLEASE get the e-top button off the spacebar. Trying to type on the drive station and constantly having it e-stop the robot is beyond annoying. Move it to the escape key. It's rarely hit during normal use.
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Nothing is safer then having the biggest button on a keyboard as the emergency stop button.
If it were the escape key, and your robot was currently attacking a fellow student, I'd be fumbling around my keyboard for a bit trying to figure out which one it is.
As Greg said, just disable your 'bot before you start typing.