Thread: OI is getting bad data from RC and vice-versa
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Re: OI is getting bad data from RC and vice-versa
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Originally Posted by ericand
We saw this as well with our robot when we were testing it out just prior to shipping. The voltage registered as 8.2 and the robot went crazy. It had been working prior to this and worked just fine later.

We have the pragma set up for .tmpdata and our code looks OK as far
as we can tell. We would like to hear about other peoples experiences so
we can make sure this does not happen in competition.
It was identified as a bug in IFIs precompiled libraries, they've made a repaired version available at:
http://www.ifirobotics.com/rc.shtml#Programming

Also, I've heard some less than nice comments about IFI on this one, and I won't name names, but people, be nice, they do serious tailbreaking every year for this, and it was a new chip this year, between IFI and FIRST I think we've had one of the most bug free years so far and I'd be willing to be those griping programmers have made a mistake or too themselves. They're only human and I applaud them for getting us a fix as soon as they realized what was going on. Thanks IFI.
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