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justintconroy / SIGBot-Jerry-Sanders

Repository for code related to the SIGBot entrant into the Jerry Sanders Creative Design Competition <http://dc.ec.uiuc.edu>
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/projects/SigBot/wiki/Jerry+Sanders+%282009%29
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Remote Killswitch #3

Open justintconroy opened 14 years ago

justintconroy commented 14 years ago

There is no good way to kill power to the motors if the robot goes wild. This is an important safety issue that needs to be addressed very soon.

justintconroy commented 14 years ago

The kill switch should be separate from the other wireless stuff and should be easily accessible.

justintconroy commented 14 years ago

Right now the Arduino code should stop the motors if it hasn't received a "start" byte in a while. I can't really give any guarantees about the reliability of that code, though.