Thread: Watchdog!?!?!?!
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Re: Watchdog!?!?!?!

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Originally Posted by keehun View Post
I am probably half wrong, so correct me. =] This is my learning experience, too.
Nope, you got it right.

As keehan indicated, The watchdog is a safety feature that fail-safes the robot by shutting down all actuators when it isn't happy. Keep it happy by feeding it at regular intervals. This protects you when code hangs.

One common watchdog source is putting slow camera code in your fast drive code.
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