pic: Totally Desctiptive Object Name

[yash101]

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[Richard Wallace]

Every robot needs a locky-thingy. A robot without one might fire when it isn't supposed to, and hit the wrong target; e.g., a referee, FTA, or robot inspector.

Wouldn't want that. Better put in the locky-thingy.

[JesseK]

When I first read the title, I thought it said 'deceptive object name' at which point it could be named "THE_unlock".

[cjl2625]

Originally Posted by Richard Wallace

Every robot needs a locky-thingy. A robot without one might fire when it isn't supposed to, and hit the wrong target; e.g., a referee, FTA, or robot inspector.

Wouldn't want that. Better put in the locky-thingy.

The locky-thing on our robot is called the trigger.

But since in this picture, the project is called DrawingPad, I'm assuming this isn't for an FRC bot.

[yash101]

It's actually a mutex, so it is supposed to lock data during reads and rights. Without properly using it, the software would crash spectacularly as the server is 100% threaded! Memory does not like to be read and written to at the same time, at the same location.

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by yash101

Memory does not like to be read and written to at the same time, at the same location.

Use different memory: Instead of ROM (Read-Only Memory), use WOM (Write-Only memory). That will solve the problem completely.