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2003 Automated Dead Reckoning Test Code by Greg McCoy
Its doubtful if anyone will read this, especially if the author will.
Anyways, I’d like to thank the author/programmer for being kind and giving.
Also, I’d like to state that the code could be more productive in PBASIC 2.5. In 2.5, you could use a Do… While Loop for turning.
One more thing. It would be more practical to use a button, such as a trigger button to determine the autonomous start.
Besides that, very nice job!
Thanks Goya,
I agree about the 2.5 being a better solution, I need to do a version in 2.5, but I didn’t have it available to me at the time that I wrote this. Sigh, more for the to-do list 
I did want to do a thing where you would have to hold both triggers as a safety so that the driver would have to be holding on to both sticks for the robot to run on it’s own, but I couldn’t get it to work for some reason.
Try this
If (p1_sw_top = 0 & p2_sw_top = 0) then SkipAutonomous
'code
SkipAutonomous:
You’ve really helped a lot of teams out there. Keep up the good work!
how is using a button/trigger going to work? there’s no way to get input from the controller station during auto. mode…right?
*jeremy
To use during practice, and for general safety. Also, the values of the joysticks will be set to 0, as will all digital inputs.
Consequently, that code would work in the match, and during practice.
However, I made a mistake - & is reserved for bit math.
This is the right code:
if ((p1_sw_trig = 0) AND (p1_sw_top = 0)) then
'autonomous code
else
'nonautonomous code
endif
*Originally posted by Jeremy_Mc *
**how is using a button/trigger going to work? there’s no way to get input from the controller station during auto. mode…right?*jeremy **
Yeah, as I’ve stated before, this code is definately NOT intended to be used for competition, only for learning and practice.
is the link to this PBasic file dead or can a guy still get ahold of it?
Holy Old Topic, Batman!
:ahh:
may be old but still very interested. Anyone?