Our team has been storing our robot from last year in a closet, and until about three weeks ago it had not been run since the end of May. When we got it out the other day we started it up, and began working the controls. It seemed to be working fine, but then it suddenly just died. The electrical systems would start up, and the controller lights would turn on, but nothing would happen. We didnt think too much about it until this week when we decided it would be good to get it running. All we could think was that something had happened to the program in it. As we could not find our old program, I wrote a simple drive program for it and we loaded it and it still didnt work. Over the course of today we loaded every single program on every single computer we have, and none of them will work on it. After we load a program the program state light will go on solid green, then if we press reset it changes to orange. The OI flashes no data/radio and the OI radio shows transmit but not receive. The robot radio goes to standby.
Has anyone else had this problem, or know a way to correct it? We tried the new radio modems, we tried the tether, and nothing seems to work.