Welcome
About us
Our robot uses code made completely in Kotlin, a fairly new language made by Google. We use a standard set of libraries provided by FIRST that control the hardware of the robot, in addition to many community-made libraries to enhance the process. If you want to learn Kotlin, we recommend you check out the following articles from the Kotlin website:
We store all of our code on GitHub. Our GitHub URL can be found by pressing the GitHub icon at the top right of the page.
Program Structure
OpModes and Scripts
The code uses opmodes to control the robot. An opmode is a class that contains any code the user wants. Users are presented with a list of opmodes and choose which one they want to run.
Opmodes begin with the init() method. The init() method is called once when the user presses the INIT button on the Driver Station.
Once the user presses the Play button, the run() function runs. The run() function is run once, and code is required to be placed in a while loop to run continuously.
The last function that runs is the onStop() method. This method is called when the user presses the Stop button on the Driver Station, but is also called if there is a timer on the driver station that reaches zero.
We also have other components called scripts. Scripts work similarly to opmodes, but are not controlled by the driver station, instead they are added in the init() function of an opmode. Multiple scripts can be added to an opmode, and scripts are reusable between opmodes.
We will touch more in-depth on opmodes and scripts later.
Hardware
Hardware is controlled by the HardwareManager class. It contains all the hardware objects that are available to the robot, which should be configured in the Driver Station.