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Catalyst Console v0.5.1 — The garage, properly
The garage, properly
0.5.0 drew the robot as a wireframe the size of a postage stamp and stopped at nineteen facts. This
is the same data, given the room it deserved.
The plan is now a render. Filled chassis on a lit ground, bumpers as a solid band, wheels sized
off the published wheel radius and oriented fore-aft, a brighter edge across the front so it cannot
be read upside down. It is more than twice the size it was.
The bumpers carry your alliance colour, taken from FMS. An unknown alliance draws neutral rather
than picking one, because the colour is a claim about which side you are on and the console should
not make that up. The caption says which alliance it drew, and which of bumpers, frame and modules
it actually had figures for — so a partial plan cannot be mistaken for a complete one.
More of what the robot already publishes. Two new groups and eleven new rows:
- Controller — roboRIO model, serial, image, FPGA version, and the comment field teams use to
label a spare. - Traction — wheel coefficient of friction, slip current, drive current limit.
- The Catalyst line carries the build stamp, so
1.10.0 · 6e02513 dirtydistinguishes two builds
between releases where a bare version number cannot. - Java version, rotation rate in degrees per second, steer ratio, whether the drivetrain is on CAN FD
or CAN 2.0, bumper depth, and the gyro's CAN id beside its name. - Bumper diagonal, computed from the two published bumper dimensions — the width that actually
has to clear a gap when you approach one at an angle. Absent whenever either side it is built from
is, which is the same licence the library takes for bumper-to-bumper itself. - The power channel map, listed rather than counted. The summary row answers how loaded the PDH
is; the list answers which breaker is the one that just popped, and only the robot knows it.
A robot that publishes a name but no geometry is the ordinary case rather than a broken one, so the
card drops its stage lighting and hero spacing and becomes a plain sheet of facts instead of a frame
around a missing picture.
Nothing here is invented. What the render adds over the previous drawing is lighting, not geometry.