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Originally Posted by kamocat
If your rookie team builds a kit-bot at the kickoff, then they have a robot they can drive. It will drive with the default code.
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If you're a rookie team, the cRIO from the Kit of Parts won't come with a program pre-installed that can drive a robot. You'll have to give it one. That means you'll have to load the FRC programming software onto a computer, find the example "default" program, compile it, and download it to the cRIO.
If you're a veteran team, you almost certainly don't have "default" code in your cRIO. You can start fresh the way rookies will, or you can try to wire your robot to match the code that is already installed.
In the days of the IFI controller, a team could plug stuff in and have a running robot without anyone touching a computer. Now, the programmers have about as big a job to do as the mechanical and electrical groups in order to get a robot doing anything.