Thread: Bypass Disable Switch
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Unread 18-07-2006, 01:30
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Re: Bypass Disable Switch
PBasic type educontrollers can also be run autonomously, by setting the team number to 0 and cycling power. If there is a user defined auto mode program, it will execute until power is turned off.

Another option might be to keep the OI on the robot, connected by a tether and enable automode with a dongle switch. Add a short pause at the start of the program to allow you to flip the switch and extract you're hand before it takes off. This would save you from having to set the team number back and forth, and also allow you a quick and easy way to put the robot under manual control. Just connect a joystick and disable automode and away you go. No radio, external power supply and the only range limit is the length of the joystick cable.

I would be a little leery about a large scale robot running in autonomous mode with out any remote way of turning it off though. But I am not the computer trusting sort...