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Re: Unclaassified: Information about the 2010 control system

To follow up, we just completed transfering our 2009 code into 2010 and getting it functional.

The new method of opening and referencing devices it a large improvement. Everything else worked pretty much out-of-the-box. The only other difference that comes to mind functionality-wise is the messages that you send to the DS. I can tell you right now that the DS screen is very small at 7 inches - and the text that you can send to the driver message display is equally small. Smaller and harder to read than the quickbyte. I think that we (my team) will modify the dashboard to make a larger and easier to read section since we use that for feedback from our autonomous settings.

There are some quirks to the DS that you need to get used to - the order the joysticks number themselves in is a bit problematic, though they give an easy way to reorder them. If you don't have the hub and joysticks plugged in when you run the DS, it will not detect them if you plug them in after the fact. In addition, you may have to pay attention to updating the DS software and the Crio image - the latest beta update broke camera communications if you didn't image the crio AND install and use the new DS software.

It's nothing insurmountable, and it's been great fun (and a lot of work) to watch the 1718 controls team figure out the issues and keep moving ahead. We're looking forward to hosting our seminar with our co-team 2604: it's going to be fun and exciting to show off the new code.
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