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Lightbulb Hints For Rookie Programmers
Thought I would lay down a couple guidelines:

1) Never program when you have less than 6 hours of sleep in the past 24. IT DOESN'T WORK (Without a lot of coffee)

2) Always initialize your PWM outputs to 127. If you don't it will default to 0. (0 is full reverse. I forgot to initialize my motor outputs. We turned on the robot, and it went backwards full speed and almost bashed one of our engineers in the shins... )

3) Don't forget to increase those counters! (Well... I forgot this crucial step in one loop in our autonomous program... our robot was spinning in a circle for about five minutes)

Ok, they're obvious, I know... just thought I'd share them. Anyone got any others to add?
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