Check joysticks and I/O module before each match

[James Tonthat]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

I've seen a few reports of joystick and cypress I/O module problems.

While statistically, the chances of a problem are very low, it's really easy to check that your joysticks / I/O module are working before a match (takes 10 seconds) and can save your match.

We had the same thing happen to us. We started checking our joysticks every match. Luckily we won the match in autonomous, so nothing too bad happened other than our scouting data looked bad for us.

[Jared Russell]

Additionally, we had an issue last year where one of the USB ports on the Classmate was damaged enough that jiggling the joystick cables caused intermittent connections. Note that the Driver Station automatically disables your robot if it detects that joysticks are removed while you are enabled!