control thingy

[CBaoth]

ok im sorry if this is wrong forum im new and this looked like best forum.
Ok so our situation is we were downloading a program (this is not related to first its just us messing around///OCCRA) and after program is downloaded the light on thing inside robot (sorry dont know name) for program stayed yellow and the robot wouldnt respond to anything. When we reset same thing. when we turned robot on and off program light started blinking red/green(or orange?) rapidly. We tried tether we tried radio we vacuumed incase of alumium shavings... we have no clue what went wrong does anyone have any ideas?
Sorry if im not cohearant i have problems with writing...

[Ricky Q.]

Check out page 12 of the IFI FRC Robot Controller Reference Guide for the meaning of the lights.

http://www.ifirobotics.com/docs/rc-r...01-31-2005.pdf

Sounds like a coding problem.

[The Cyborg]

It sounds to me like the program itself may be faulty. Did you compile the program before downloading to check for any errors?
If it wasn't the default program that is causing this, then I suggest re-downloading the default program back onto the robot.

If it was the default program that did this, then I assume that a glitch was involved in the downloading process, or the Robot Controller (I assume that is what you are talking about) may be faulty. I don't know If this happened to any other teams, but when we first started up a brand new system with a default program on it, it took a little time for the program to get "used to" the controls. But eventually the whole thing started to run without any problems.

I hope this helps.

[CBaoth]

if it was error in downloading process how would we fix that cause we tried redownloading and that gave same error

[Ryan M.]

Originally Posted by CBaoth

if it was error in downloading process how would we fix that cause we tried redownloading and that gave same error

As stated by the others, try downloading the default code. The FRC_default.hex file should work.

[CBaoth]

Originally Posted by Ryan M.

As stated by the others, try downloading the default code. The FRC_default.hex file should work.

thanks btw now that the thread is answered and compleate is there like a way for the person who created it to lock it?