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[FTC]: [FTC]: A fix to the RobotC joystick driver to help with field disconnects

Hey all, one of our programmers made a fix to the RobotC joystick driver that cuts down on robot damage in the event of a Wi-Fi disconnect.

We ran into this a couple times this last season. We would lose connection to the field, and the robot would keep running the last command it was given. So if we were driving, it would keep driving. The major issue came up when it kept running a mechanism that was not supposed to be run past a certain point, and the mechanism was severely damaged.

With this fix, the robot just stops dead when it disconnects.

I'm not much of a programmer at all, but if you have any questions, I can pass them on to him.

Apparently it can be found here (again, not a programmer, I know very little about GitHub)

https://github.com/FTC-6806/Experime...e/tree/master/
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