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Originally Posted by Big Kid
Last year, I was able to do this with ours with a few switches connected to the I/O of the Digi. Sidecar. It was somewhat simple, just setting up the programming for it was long. Besides that is works like a charm I think we had 8 possible auto. we only used 4 or 6 max.
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It's actually much more convinient to do it in software.
We used one of the Joystick buttons to step through auto mode options.
They only worked when the robot was disabled in auto mode.
It saved the auto mode number in a file on the cRIO, so it remembered it next time it powerd up.
It also displayed the name of the program on the LCD display, so it will still work with the new DS's.
The beauty of this method is that if you forget to set the mode when you position the robot, you can still change it up until the time you have to step away from the driver station.
I wrote a white paper last year....
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2209
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10-01-2010, 10:42
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