whs_robotic_designlab

Okay. I am bad at writing, grammar, and spelling. This is why I am a programmer. No one cares if you spell a varaible wrong as long as you spell it wrong constantly. On that note, here are the somewhat cohesive instructions for using this code.

First:

Clone the repo. If you don't know what that means, blame ECS.

Second:

Now that you have the code downloaded, I should probably explain what it does and where everything is.

• Libraries This is where you will find the dependencies for your project. It is not important to note that I coded these (except for PS2X_LIB).
• BattleBot This is the code for the battlebot (2022-2023). By no means is it perfect. In fact, I purposely (definitely on purpose) didn't code arcade drive so you guys would have something to do this year. Luckily, I did in fact make it super easy to code arcade drive (don't tell the teacher). All you have to do is
• Seriously though, I did all the hard work for you. For example, you need to know the RPM of a motor just call motor.getRPM(); Need to execute some code when a button is pressed, just added it to the buttonFunction array.

Third

I highly recommend you READ the BattleBot Code. I have provided comments, that hopefully will help in understanding what I wrote and how to use different functionality of my code.

Forth

I realized this isn't a list and just a place for me to dump random information. If you're still reading, Thanks! Here is a quick tip that will give you and edge. Learn on Object Oriented Programming Language(OOP). I will admit C/C++ is hard.
Memory Management, no thanks. Call by value or call by Reference, Why would I know. Start with something simple like Java (python is dog water) that probably won't age well. Anyway, it is much easier to learn the fundamentals of OOP in a simpler language than to jump head first into arduino, a C++/C weird hybrid. I understand that doesn't help you because odds are you don't have time to Learn Java. You need to code whatever heck the instructor wants you to do NOW. In that case....

1. BOOM
2. BANG
3. BANG AGAIN Also have fun wiring :)