Dashboard-Driver Station Help Please

[TheDominis]

Originally Posted by sircedric4

Thank you auk, I see the comments you referred to, and can figure out which lines I should replace the comments with, except a couple of the lines look like they might be doing something I don't understand.

Are there any examples that do work? (2010 Vision Demo isn't) Can someone point me to the document that details what the format that the dashboard is expecting so I know what I need to fill it. I'm gonna try the changes I just made, on the robot tonight, but don't be surprised if you find me asking for a working Dashboard example if someone is feeling gracious so I can see what I need to do to get my driver station updating with robot information.


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This is just general venting, you can skip this unless you want to commiserate or as the students today say: tl,dr
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So FIRST once again purposely torpedos the rookies and those just starting to learn, which isn't very graciously professional if you ask me. Not exactly setting a good example I think. I suppose now that I know that they are false advertising and are not actually providing working examples to learn from, I will be more careful. As a consulation at least they only commented out the code that makes it work.

I suppose their torpedos are also in the 2010 Vision Demo as well which would explain why I could not get it to work either. I keep getting an error on the driver station about a watchdog not being fed. With the Vision Demo I just threw it away since I couldn't get it to work, eventhough I put the GetWatchDog().Feed(); in the teleoperated section and it still didn't work. I just assumed that like the rest of the coding and updating that something was broken and that a new example would be coming out soon. I spent the last 3 days just trying to get the systems to talk together because of all the errors in the manual and getting all the proper updates talking.

It's not like the game and building a robot isn't difficult enough without maliciously providing red herrings and wrong turns. I understand showing the students how harsh the real world is, but I expect the simple examples to be actually functional, or at least for FIRST not to say that they have sample functioning code for you to learn on. What happened to the good old days of FIRST just 2 years ago, when a default code was provided that would at least have your robot work out of the box if you put your PWM's to the right places?

You mad?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnhUYWbW3jQ around ~6:00