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Re: test autonomous mode
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Originally Posted by SilverStar
How did you get it out of auto mode?
I'm not quite sure what you mean but I'll try to answer:

The dongle was used only to test the autonomous programs so we really didn't have much need to switch out of the mode. Still, if problems did arise, we could simply switch the dongle off and user mode would pop right back up. This became useful at times when program bugs would send the robot scrambling in a random direction on a murderous rampage (which happened more than once)!

One great thing about the OI is that it will read control input during disabled mode. This allows you to give the robot information (such as which program to run) up to the last second before the buzzer. Our team used this to our advantage, allowing us to have 7 autonomous programs (3 switches, binary) that we could choose as we set up the controls and switch quickly if problems came up (we used the last binary position - 0 - as a manual override in the program just in case something went wrong with both the program AND the dongle (quelle catastrophe!).
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