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Viking Robotics 2017

##Description Code for the FIRST Robotics team 580's robot. It is written in C++ and compiled using Eclipse. Instructions for setting up Eclipse to work with FRC Robotics Code can be found here.

##Contributors

Maxwell Chow

Deploying

  1. Have Eclipse running

  2. Make sure your computer is connected to the robot while it is on

  • This can be done either physically with an ethernet cable or wirelessly to the attached router
  • An ethernet cable can be hooked up either directly into the RoboRio or into the router

  1. Right click on the project (Note: Project, not the source code), and hover over the option reading "Run as"

  2. Click on "WPILib C++ Deploy"

Note As of January 2017, the extra CANTalon Library is now necessary to compile the robot code.

Controlling the Robot

WARNING!

The FRC Driver Station software is a Windows-only application. It will not run on either OSX or Linux.

  1. Make sure you have the FRC 2015 Update Suite installed.
  • The password is: R3C3CL3RU$H2015

  1. Connect your computer to the robot (Either physically or wirelessly, as specified in Deploying)

  2. Open the Driver Station software and netconsole

  • These are located in "C:\Program Files (x86)\FRC Driver Station" and "C:\Program Files (x86)\NetConsole for cRIO" respectively.
  1. In DriverStation.exe, click Enable when the "Robot Code" and "Communications" lights are green.