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Standalone RoboRio Testing with the Tethered Rover

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Kevin Lam edited this page Nov 19, 2018 · 14 revisions

Introduction

We have a lot of students who want to learn robot code development, and only a couple of existing FRC robots to work with. Some teams, especially rookies, don't even have that. We follow the good advice of building a robot control system laid out on a piece of plywood (we call ours Plyboy), but even this is expensive if you're setting up the entire FRC control system with a RoboRio, a PDP, VRM, access point, motor controllers, etc.

Fortunately it is possible to do simple robot code and training work using only a bare RoboRio and a few other inexpensive parts! This page describes our "Tethered Rover" development and experimentation platform.

Parts List

  1. RoboRio - from AndyMark
  2. 12V, 2A or greater power supply - This one from Amazon includes a barrel connector with screw terminals which is convenient.

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