[eedoga]

Hey Alan,

I know you are feeling the pressure of only having two days left and having everything seem to fall apart...Been there myself as have most people here.

Electrical Engineers love to blame programmers for their problems. :-) To be honest you probably have a bit of both an electrical problem and a code problem.

Here is what I would suggest you do.

1) Change your battery for a freshly charged one. (You would be surprised how often magical problems go away when you do this.)

2) Go over your wiring really carefully. It is a rats nest in there and sometimes wires are connected to the wrong things by accident and "look" just fine.

3) Electronically go through system by system. So for example, pull all the PWM cables except for your drive motors. Then test your program for driving. Check that you have everything set right, and get that working first.

Also using a volt meter to see that you are actually getting voltage everywhere you expect it is probably a good thing.

Then slowly add back each subsystem doing the same thing.

4) Post all of your available information. Close up pictures of your wiring. Upload your program...Everything so that all the other teams you are asking for help can actually help you. Probably do step 4 first.

I wish you and your team the best of luck with this one. Remember...Even if you have to bag a non functioning robot there are plenty of teams that will help you at the competition. Teams have shown up with nothing but their kit of parts and left with a robot before...At the competition everyone wants to see your robot make it onto the field.

Good luck.

Edoga