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Re: Ball eject

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Originally Posted by Woolly View Post
I for one think that robots moving without connection to the driver station constitutes a safety issue, as does FIRST. This is why the base robot project shipped with your choice of programming language tends to make the robot refuse to do anything without connection to the driver station, and a signal that it is in teleop or autonomous mode.
In theory nothing (much) can move if the communications are down. The FIRST libraries on the robot fire a watchdog that disables all control outputs.

If a robot on my alliance went brain dead I would want them to hit the big red button - maybe the refs would put the ball back into play?
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