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Re: programming pneumatics

Alan Anderson,
Actually, we have two ways to disabel our robot.
When we were improving our one stick driving code earlier, we put in a failsafe to stop the robot to neutral (and it came in handy on several occasions needless to say). We have to hold down one of the buttons on the joystick to enable the robot to move.

We also recently made a dongle for "emergency stop", "autonomous", and "regular driving".

I'm very sure we enabled the robot through the dongle, but not sure about our origional failsafe. I am very sure the failsafe was only for the drive motors and our failsafe would have shown up on our teminal because we put a printf statement that would have indicated that it was disabled. I don't remember without looking at the code and/or the robot.

I have been constantly emailing with the rest of the team and, after seeing some diagrams on wiring, they are also thinking the thing is wired incorrectly. Tomorrow the team will be figuring out why the pnumatics arn't working, and I'll bring the failsafe up. When we figure this out I'll obviously write to tell ya'll about what the problem was.

Last edited by Aarnat : 01-02-2008 at 22:05.