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Exclamation Problems with Programming

Hi again.

Yesterday, I tried to program some autonomous codes into the robot, but it didn't exactly work out the way it was supposed to. Half the time, there was a red light on next to the "code error" message on the O/I and the robot wouldn't do anything at all, and when I input the code for a simple autonomous program to make the robot drive forward, stop, turn left, stop, then drive forward again and stop, it only went forward and didn't stop at all.

Another problem that I've been having is when I program for RC control with the joysticks (using the Arcade 4 programming for 4 wheel drive), the joysticks won't work. One set of wheels will constantly spin when the other set doesn't, and if I can finally get both sides to stop completely (which takes some tedious calibrations of both joysticks) I can't get them to move again. Speaking of both joysticks, we've also been having some issues with getting our robot to work on only one joystick. Last time we had only one joystick, one wheel would constantly spin and wouldn't respond to the joystick movements. I was wondering if that was an error with the default programming since nothing else had been programmed into the Controller when we were having that problem.

Would anyone be able to tell me what's going on with the robot? Is there something that I'm not programming correctly?