Core robot hardware

• Links to software for offline installs of NI software, Rio/radio updater, etc.
• NI roboRio manual
  • Among other things, this provides documentation for LED status/color codes, etc.
• Re-imaging the RoboRio
• Programming the radio

Working with a Raspberry Pi video server

• Creating a new microSD card for the RasPi
• How to configure a new camera to stream video
• Miscellaneous notes on Raspberry Pi

Trouble-shooting on the field

"2020 Advice from a CSA"

[The following is quoted in its entirety from the link above: the advice is simply too good to risk losing.]

Start with the basics: I spend (by far) the majority of my time at events on issues which would go away if all teams followed the advice below. I’m just going to link existing WPI documentation, but some of these gems are buried in a lot of other (good) information and are being missed by many teams:

• Preemptive Checks: https://docs.wpilib.org/en/latest/docs/hardware/hardware-basics/preemptive-troubleshooting.html 26
• Wiring Best Practices: https://docs.wpilib.org/en/latest/docs/hardware/hardware-basics/wiring-best-practices.html 31
• Log Viewer: https://docs.wpilib.org/en/latest/docs/software/driverstation/driver-station-log-viewer.html#driver-station-log-file-viewer 10
• Driver Station Network Diagnostics: https://docs.wpilib.org/en/latest/docs/software/driverstation/driver-station.html#diagnostics-tab 12
• Status Light Handy Decoder: https://docs.wpilib.org/en/latest/docs/hardware/hardware-basics/status-lights-ref.html 33

The WPI docs are helpful for many other problems, but it’s much easier to deal with other problems when the ones covered above are not present.

Additional resources

• IT resources and trouble-shooting advice from FIRST