Tips for new 'Head of Electronics'

[Spillertb]

- Don't make a rats nest of wires like I did

- Make sure that the mechanical team secures the battery very well so that it won't break the tiptoes holding it in allowing it to knock out half the pwm wires therefor disabling half of your drivetrain like I did

- I used some tape the ppm wires to the roboRio because the are super important and they tend to wiggle out of their place, but there is probably a way better way to secure them

- Make sure the robot inspector doesn't drop a battery on the Voltage Regulator Module knocking out the radio power wires disabling you for an entire match

- Use lock tight on any talon SR screw because they will come loose.

- if you don't need a CAN bus then make sure you connect the roborio to the PDP with some yellow green twisted wire, not red and black like I did, (they did not like that)

- Have the team one of those good pair of wire strippers were it automatically does the right size, those things are cool

- Get a good set of screw drivers, I used some of my own personal iFix-it tools

- Learn to solder, I learned the hard way

- Lean the basics of programming just so you kinda have an understanding of how it works, ex: if you should use brake or coast depending on the programming (I was also the lead programmer so I did all of the electronics to my liking)

- You and at least one other person check over the main important wiring before each competition, and at least check to make sure all the correct lights are on before each match

- Get a navX-MXP, they're super cool
- When using the navX-MXP also connect it to a USB A port for a second source of power to protect from brownouts