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Software We Track

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National Instruments

Driver Station and robot communication:

https://www.ni.com/en-us/support/downloads/drivers/download.frc-game-tools.html#333285 Driver station, roboRio…

WPILib (with VS Code and extensions)

Programming workbench and basic simulator. New versions come out roughly monthly during Build Season.

https://github.com/wpilibsuite/allwpilib/releases

You may want git Bash too: https://gitforwindows.org/

Navx

For autonomous navigation: https://www.kauailabs.com/navx-mxp/

CTRE Talon SRX / Falcon FX / Phoenix Tuner for Pneumatics and PDP

For the rest of the devices on our CAN bus, look for the Phoenix Tuner as well as firmware updates: https://store.ctr-electronics.com/software/

Rev Robotics

The white, rectangular motor controllers we used with the Neo motors. Need the Windows client and check for firmware updates. https://docs.revrobotics.com/rev-hardware-client/gs/install

Photon Vision

Used for AprilTag recognition: https://photonvision.org/downloads.html

Limelight

Used for vision processing: https://limelightvision.io/pages/downloads

FRC Radio Configuration

The older Lenovos seem to be better at flashing the FRC radio. We must flash after every competition.

https://docs.wpilib.org/en/latest/docs/getting-started/getting-started-frc-control-system/radio-programming.html (2020 uses same firmware as 2019, but good to have link in case we need to reflash)

Grapple Hook Robotics

Software to configure the ThriftyBot LaserCAN

https://github.com/GrappleRobotics/GrappleHook

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