(Programming) Lessons learned from week 1?

[biojae]

Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle

3. If you are using CAN, pay attention to error handling and to cable termination. Errors that aren't handled well and aren't reported to the field may take out much of the robot and cause lots of debugging confusion.

What errors are reported to the Field?
Could a change be made to the CAN library to report CAN errors to the Field?

[BradAMiller]

This thread is great, it was very disappointing to see a team missing a match because of some software version mismatch or something else easily fixable.

We also started making a list of additional things here: http://firstforge.wpi.edu/sf/wiki/do...b/wiki/Lessons that might be useful to teams. This list will get updated as we get more feedback.

Good luck at the regionals!

[Greg McKaskle]

What I meant by reported to the field was reported to the drivers via the driver station or dashboard. If CAN errors were printed to the dashboard or DS, it would have helped pinpoint the issues much quicker.

Greg McKaskle