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Adding to what DJ said, there are a lot of little "hidden" control components that we had. We have 1 keyswitch on the robot that turns off the rotating light; the benefit of this is to save our battery while working in the pits, as well as just to get rid of the annoying flashing. And you dont have to worry about losing the breakers or forgetting to put them back in before a match. Even if we forget to take out the key and leave it in the disabled position, as soon as the RC is reset the light will come back on.
There is another keyswitch on our operator controls which enables "maintenance mode," allowing us to do such things as easily calibrating the joysticks.
We also built custom, intuitive controls to operate our wall. It consisted of two handles coming vertically up, with horizontal handlebars on each. To pitch the wall forward, just lean the assembly forward, to pitch backwards, lean back. To open the left wing, twist the left handle to the left; to open the right wing, twist the right handle to the right. To extend, click a toggle switch at the end of the right handle up, click it down to retract the extension.
And, our pivoting electronics board allowed for easy access to all electrical and mechanical components of the robot.
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