There's nothing like facing your robot away from the computer by yourself, leaving autonomus mode on, screwing in the program cable to both sides, and watching your Program Port get torn out of the FRC as your robot races away.
I was lucky that half of the pins were still attached, and that we had a good soldiering expert on our team who could manage to get the port working again.
I could not have imagined my instructors look if he had walked in before I hid the FRC out of sight to hide the
The moral: Do not put your robot on the ground while downloading code and while leaving autonomous mode on (using a switch on the OI).
If you want to do this, at least do not screw your Serial cable in to both sides of the connection.
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-Patrick Horn,
Paly Robotics
Check out the space simulator called
Vega Strike, modelled after the space simulator games Elite and Wing Commander. It's Open Source too!
If you have ever played
Wing Commander, or especially
Privateer, and had a feeling of nostalga derived from the you will enjoy these two Vega Strike mods:
Privateer Gemini Gold and
Privateer Remake!
I'm working on adding multiplayer support this year...