First Robotics Team 812

2024 preliminary repo

Robot Start Up Checklist

1. Power up the robot by attaching a well charged battery and closing the breaker
2. Power up both laptops
3. Start up Visual Code on both laptops
4. Connect to the 812 WiFi network on both laptops
5. Start the Drivers Station on the laptop that is connected to the joysticks and confirm that it has a) Robot Communications; b) Robot Code; c) Joystick's connected.
6. Open Chrome on the laptop that is connected to the joysticks and enter http://10.8.12.100 and confirm that the PhotonVision console is available and that you can see a camera image.

How to check in the code

1. Open Visual Code
2. Open the current folder, FRC_2024
3. Select the Source Control icon from the left menu
4. Hover on the files to be Staged and click the '+' sign to stage the file, continue to do this for all files to be staged
5. Click the '...' menu and select Commit Staged
6. Enter a description of the change this commit makes to the code base
7. Click the '...' menu and select Push

Game resources

• FIRST Robotics Competition Control System
• Game & Season Materials
• FRC Game Season Manual

Technical resources

• Java Command Based Programming reference
• New for 2023
• NI Game Tools Download
• Radio Configuration Instructions
• CTRE Firmware is located in C:\Users\Public\Documents\FRC
• CTRE Phoenix Tuner

Robot Network Devices

• WiFi AP http://10.8.12.1
• RoboRio http://roborio-812-frc.local -or- http://10.8.12.2
• PhotonVision Pi http://photonvision.local/ -or- http://10.8.12.100

Vision Processing

• For 2023 we use PhotonVision https://photonvision.org/

Accelerometer / Gyro documents

• WPILib Using Gyroscopes
• Kauai Labs navX-MXP Robotics Navigation Sensor User Guide