Before anyone enables a robot

Five minutes, out loud, at the start of every session with real hardware. Nobody is too experienced to hear it again.

1. Rule 1

   Know where the disable button is

   Enter disables the robot. Spacebar is emergency stop. Find them before you plug anything in.

2. Rule 2

   Say "enabling" out loud

   Every time, before you enable. Everyone near the robot needs to hear it.

3. Rule 3

   Robot on blocks

   For the first drivetrain test, the wheels come off the floor.

4. Rule 4

   Hands clear of mechanisms

   Anything that can move, will, the moment it is enabled.

5. Rule 5

   Safety glasses on

   Everyone in the area, not just whoever is driving.

6. Rule 6

   One person drives

   One person on the controller, one person watching the robot.

Deploying to the robot

1. 1Connect to the robot.
2. 2Ctrl+Shift+P, then WPILib: Deploy Robot Code.
3. 3Wait for the Driver Station to go green.
4. 4Robot on blocks.
5. 5Say "enabling".
6. 6Enable teleop.

Words you will hear at the robot

roboRIO

The robot's computer. Code runs here.

CAN bus

A chain of wires connecting motor controllers; each device gets a unique ID.

CAN ID

The address of a motor controller. Two devices with the same ID break things.

PWM

An older, simpler way to control motors, by port number.

Inversion

Motors on opposite sides spin opposite ways.

Vendor libraries

Code from REV and CTRE that WPILib does not include.