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Using the 2014 robot

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Using 2014 Robots

For many demos we have to drive our robots that use the CRIO as their control board,

These robots use the 2014 communication protocol, and won't work with the shiny new v19.0 driver station. To be able to control these robots, follow the instructions bellow for the robot you are using.

2014 and T-shirt Cannon

To use our 2014 robot Skyhammer, as mentioned before you have to use the 2014 driver station. Please read till the end of the instructions there are ones near the end that will make the robots do weird things if not followed!

Photo of skyhammer

1. Power on the robot and leave it on through all the following steps.

1.5. If using the T-shirt cannon remember it ha two batteries and 2 breakers, look for the Anderson powerpoles(battery connectors) into the robot plug both batteries in, and flip both breakers(power switches).

IMPORTANT: Don't forget to close the pneumatic release value, on 2014 is is hanging on a tube, move it so the lever is 90 degrees to the tube, on the t-shirt cannon it is on the side of the turret, close to a solenoid.

2. Power up the current 2019 driver station(check the pocket of the black cloth brief case), there should be no password

3. Take out 2 Xbox360 controllers from the other pocket , and plug them into the driver station, keep in mind that the controllers have a little black USB, to weird Xbox 360 dongle attached to them, if not look in the pocket and attach the loose dongle(now both controllers should have USB on the end and you can plug them into computer).

4. Click on the icon found on the center of the Desktop, and then click on the Driver Station folder in the opened window. Btw, this is 254's 2019 team avatar from TBA.

5. Now you have to run the DriverStation.exe file, and allow any permissions it ask for as it boots.

6. Now go to the setup tab, you should see 2 green joysticks under Joystick Setup, drag the 2nd joystick under the 3rd one so it becomes third (if this doesnt work you may have to drag it back to second, the 2014 driver station is weird).

7. Click the WiFi icon on the bottom left of the screen and connect to the robot.

8. Go back to the Operation tab and wait until Communication, Robot Code, and Joysticks turn green, then click Enable to enable the robot. Enter disable does not work, you have to click the button.

Button Mappings

2014

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KfGh9wjSEn7nLuzdwu5VtE5MwTK1NBmfwfGBj39j3C8/edit#slide=id.g334c4deefd_1_10

T-shirt cannon

Only one controller

Driver:

Left Joystick- tank left

Right Joystick - tank right

B - Lock canister

Y - shoot

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