Lesson 12: Recap

Whew! We made it to lesson 12 together! I want to recap the major things that you should be comfortable with by now, as well as give you some additional exercises to practice with.

You should be able to:

• Create a main robot class. (lesson 2)
• Know the methods for robot init, autonomous, teleoperated, and test periods. (lesson 2)
• Be able to control motors using WPI and Robot Library objects. (lesson 3)
• Be able to handle backwards motors (lesson 3)
• Know how to get Axis/Button input (lesson 4)
• Be comfortable with the HID object (lesson 4)
• Know the importance of using Wiring/Calibration objects (lesson 5 and lesson 6)
• Use limit switches (lesson 7)
• Use potentiometers (lesson 8)
• Use pull ups (lesson 9)
• Create a tank drive (lessons 3, 4, and 11.)
• Create a mecanum drive (lesson 11)
• Allow fine and precise motor movements (lesson 10)
• Use the Code Red Library Drive object (lesson 11)

Additional Exercise:

1. Create a new robot project.
2. Create an autonomous mode that drives forward until stopped.
3. Created a geared mecanum drive with cubed input that has a "reduce speed" button.
4. Don't allow your new mecanum drive to run when a potentiometer is past a value of 2.123.
5. Make sure your code is properly structured using a Wiring class, a KeyMap class, and a Calibration class.
6. Test your code on a physical robot and make sure it works.