paper: Cheesy Poofs Robot Software 2010

[Tom Bottiglieri]

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Cheesy Poofs Robot Software 2010 by Tom Bottiglieri

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[Pat Fairbank]

Thanks for sharing! I love looking at other teams' code to learn new tricks.

Out of curiosity, what led to the decision to use a separate singleton class to hold all the sensors, actuators and logic instead of putting them in the class that inherits from IterativeRobot?

I really like the constants class and how you can read and save constants from/to a file. I'd definitely like for my team to adopt this, although I'm thinking of using preprocessor macros to ensure existence of constants at compile-time and avoid the (albeit negligible) performance cost of associative array lookups.

The auton command lists are really cool, too.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

Thanks for sharing! I love looking at other teams' code to learn new tricks.

Out of curiosity, what led to the decision to use a separate singleton class to hold all the sensors, actuators and logic instead of putting them in the class that inherits from IterativeRobot?

I really like the constants class and how you can read and save constants from/to a file. I'd definitely like for my team to adopt this, although I'm thinking of using preprocessor macros to ensure existence of constants at compile-time and avoid the (albeit negligible) performance cost of associative array lookups.

The auton command lists are really cool, too.

Hey Pat,

Sorry it took so long to get back to you. The robot stuff was put in a separate class to split it up from the competition logic. I like the idea of the robot being it's own thing, with something else twisting the knobs and switches. (The Robot actually needs to get poked with a handle() function to update all of the control logic.. I probably should have spawned a thread to do this rather than having it driven by the IterativeRobot callbacks, but oh well)

The persistent constants were super helpful. We were able to modify the file it lived in via FTP and update stuff on the fly. Crazy useful while testing/tuning. I'd love to see something like get baked into WPILib.