First modify your robot to include a Touch LED you will use
this to start your auto mode of your bot
LED should be in a place where its easy to touch and see
the color… we are going to make a program that when the
program is started the led is red and then when its running
the LED is green
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Electrical work for your BOT
plug your LED into port 5
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Programming in RobotC
Open RobotC Graphical
Select NEW FILE
Select Robot tab and make sure that your platform is VEX IQ
Select Robot again and make sure that you are set to autonomous- no controller required
Select Motor and Sensor Setup
Select Standard Models → from the pull down menu select Drive-A-Bot--
You know have the basic set up for your drive bot configured
Now you must add your LED
Go to the DEVICES tab in the motor and sensor setup and first DELETE distance MM and set
to No Sensor
before
after
Now ADD your LED to port 5 === name it led and select Touch LED from the menu
****disregard tag***
You have now set up your tag bot and ready to start programming it
SAVE YOUR WORK NOW *** save as MASTER_FILE**
Now Save-AS --- Autoprogram1 (this way you are not saving over your master file and will now
all you have to do is update the master file whenever you make changes to the configuration of
your bot)
This first part of code will set your LED to red then wait untill you touch the LED and change it
to green and then run the rest of the program that you wrote
To have the robot move in a direction use the simple behaviors commands
now you can select how far you want you robot to move forward
in this example the robot moves 1 rotation of the motor at 50% power
*** this will not move your robot much but it will give you tell you how far the robot moves in one
rotation***
continue to write your program until you have the desired outcome.
Now SAVE YOUR WORK
Using the black cable with small USB plug the robot into the computer via usb in the computer
and small USB into the brain
Click Compile Program == it might as you to save again that is OK
Click Download to robot -- make sure the robot is on..a box should come up showing progress
and then unplug the wire and your program should be on your bot under auto programs
be sure not to run the debugger while a robot is on the table.. sometimes they like to take off
Everytime you change your program you need to press the compile button and then download
to robot again