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Originally Posted by Joohoo
... how do we tell the FRC to execute the autonomous coding?? We copied everything and tried to mess around with Main.c but is there any less hazardous way to go about it??  |
Yes, there are more ways than you can shake a stick at
One is to build a competition port dongle that allows you to flip a switch and the code in main.c will react the same as in competition. There are lots of references to them in this thread and James Brown pointed you to the pinout diagram in another more personalized thread post (his post is here now). In the long run a dongle is a very important device to have as it also provides you with a DISABLE switch that overrides all autonomous programming errors!
Another is to simply pick a switch of your own, such as an unused button on a joystick and have the code in main.c set the autonomous bit as long as it sees that button pressed. There are lots of variations on this and it's certainly safer than hardcoding it within main.c. Use your imagination. Just remember to remove it from your competition code unless you come up with an interesting autonomous move that's useful in the middle of this year's game.
