2016 Robot Code

Buttons

On the drivers controller:

• Left joystick is forward/reverse, right joystick is left/right.
• Button 8 converts to tank drive

On the lift joystick:

• Button 3 tilts the shooter up
• Button 4 tilts the shooter down
• Button 5 runs the pickup wheels in
• Button 6 runs the pickup wheels out at full speed
  • Simultaneously pressing button 8 slows them down to half speed
• Button 7 forces a single revolution on the kick wheel

Extending

To make the robot do interesting things. Objects from wpilib can be instantiated and used.

Use

RobotPy is used to run Python3 on the RoboRIO.

Requirements

RobotPy is developed with pyfrc, which only works with Python 3 (not Python 2). Python 3 is provided by the python3 package.

pip3 can be used to install development tools using

pip install -r requirements.txt

Virtual Environment

A virtual environment should be used, and can be created using virtualenv -p python3 venv. The entire setup (after installing Python 3) looks like.

virtualenv -p python3 venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Testing and Deploying

Both testing and deploying require an active virtual environment (source venv/bin/activate).

To test, run python robot.py sim.

To deploy, run python robot.py deploy --nc, when connected to the same network as the RoboRIO.