Everybody has been focusing on the programming, but nobody has answered the other question:
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Originally Posted by stephenthe1
...does the operator interface controller provide a way to simply shut everything down immediately in the event of a disaster?
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If you don't already have a "competition dongle" to plug into the top port of your OI, make one
now. One of the pins on the competition port will disable the robot, shutting off all its outputs. See the
Competition Port Pinout Guide on the
Innovation First web site.
A couple of weeks ago I put together a mini-dongle, with the "disable" toggle switch built into a plastic DB-15 connector housing (the extra channel access is wired to be permanently active, and autonomous control is not available). It's mostly going to be used when someone is working on the robot and doesn't want it to bite them if a joystick gets bumped. It'll also come in handy when we want to have multiple robots running at the same time.