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Re: "Emergency Stopped" message won't go away

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Originally Posted by Brandon_L View Post
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.
Space bar being disable is adequate in my opinion.

I also don't understand why an e-stop necessitates a power cycle.
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