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Re: Forgetful robot

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Originally Posted by xrabohrok View Post
Our team's robot has finally been assembled (well, the chasis anyway) and the came to load the code. When the code was loaded, it did fine. But when we turned it off and then back on, the robot went crazy, defaulting to a bizarre control scheme were the x direction of a undefined joystick controls half of the robot. I would like to think it is the backup battery, but it seems to be fine. Does anyone have suggestions?
Using the "select" button on your operator interface, switch to the battery voltage and report back here. What base code are you using? Are you getting the red-light-of-death (program state LED on the robot controller is red)?

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