Standalone RoboRio Testing with the Tethered Rover

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, 3A power supply - from Amazon
3. Stuff