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Code for The Outliers' 2016 FRC robot
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Show drive motor current draw on dashboard #22

Closed rtfoley closed 8 years ago

rtfoley commented 8 years ago

Use the CAN connection to the Power Distribution Panel to get the current draw for each of the drive motors, then show these values on the Smart Dashboard.

More information: https://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/4485/m/13809/l/219414-power-distribution-panel

rtfoley commented 8 years ago

Lets wait to start work on this (in other words, don't create a branch for this yet) until we close out some of the other drive-related work.

rtfoley commented 8 years ago

You can use the SmartDashboard code in Robot's sendIMUData() method as a guide for putting data on the dashboard. We should have a number for each of the 4 drive motors.

BenBernardCIS commented 8 years ago

Looks good so far, but it would be a good idea to move the getCurrent parameters to Constants (or perhaps RobotMap). Ryan, any preference?

rtfoley commented 8 years ago

Yeah let's put the constants for which PDP channels we are using for the drive motors in the RobotMap class, since that deals with where things connect on the bot. I agree looks good so far.

BenBernardCIS commented 8 years ago

We tested this on the board this morning.