BeginningSteps.md

FRC Lab View Setup

download here

tutorial for labview setup here

setting up roboRIO (only needs to be done once per roborio every year to get newest firmware)

imaging new firmware steps here

you must download lab view before imaging roborio

labview 2020 download here

installing RobotPy on roborio here

Radio Setup

programming radio here

Electronics Board wiring

wpilib link

Best practices for wiring

status lights reference

Programming guide

read the docs here

Pneumatics wiring

plumbing overview on page 14 here

[wiring pneumatics]([wiring pneumatics])

Mechanical Reference Center

most links dont work but some are pretty good here

Updating pyfrc on your computer

open terminal and run this command: pip3 install pyfrc, referecne pyfrc docs for 2020 version MAKE SURE YOU HAVE 64 BIT PYTHON OR SOME LIBRARIES WILL NOT WORK

Starting to Program

make sure you have updated the roborio and the talon srx firmware

to deploy code to the robot use py -3 robot.py deploy --skip-tests

use "ctrl ~" to open powershell in vscode

to open the simulator use python .\robot.py sim

Starting to send code

make sure that you have updated both labview on your computer and the roborio image