FTC #14204 Progress Updates

[PythonMaster245]

#14204 here, we picked up our Systemcore and Motioncore at Worlds on Friday. Currently waiting for the updates to Systemcore to work with alpha 5, but we have a mecanum program ready to go to test! Excited to see how it goes and get the A3O1s in the future!

[rzblue]

Currently waiting for the updates to Systemcore to work with alpha 5.

The Systemcore beta 10 image here is compatible with WPILib alpha-5.

[PythonMaster245]

Is it? I made a post about not being able to upload code and was told that alpha 5 was not compatible with Systemcore yet.

[ThadHouse]

OpModeRobot doesn't work on Systemcore, which means the ExHub example doesn't. But if you have a plain TimedRobot, it will work. We should have alpha 6 out soon to fix OpModeRobot.

[PythonMaster245]

We converted one of our Power Play demo bots to use Systemcore! It is working very well.
https://youtube.com/shorts/lEXNziQF9BI?feature=share

[PythonMaster245]

We have received our 8 A301s! We have not done anything with them yet. It will most likely be another week until we can start really testing them as we are running an FTC camp all next week. First steps will be updating the firmware and testing them with code.

[PythonMaster245]

We are starting to build an A301 chassis. It will be an 8 motor drivetrain.

[PythonMaster245]

Over this past week, we have finished building the A301 drivetrain, and coded it in field-centric! There was no setDirection method for the A301s that I could find to reverse them, so it made our mecanum code look a little more jumbled using negative signs for power. The IMU was a little confusing at first, but the documentation hovering over the MountOrientation fixed that immediately. One extra thing I've noticed is that the RioLog says you've lost connection to the robot even if you are still connected. This confused me when I was first trying to upload code.

We made a video where we have the chassis driving around down here:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kykz9d6YESY

[jfabellera]

There is a setInverted() method in the A301 class to reverse the motor's direction.

[gearsincorg]

Does that work now?

[Kevin-OConnor]

Does that work now?

It should in REVLib Alpha 3 per the changelog: https://github.com/wpilibsuite/SystemcoreTesting/blob/main/REV.md#revlib-v202700-alpha-3

[PythonMaster245]

For me, it is crossed out and hovering over the method says that the method is deprecated. I am on REVLib Alpha 3

[PythonMaster245]

Disregard, I did a restart and it does not say that now. All good! :D