Hi, my robotics team recently got the drivers installed to be able to connect our robot to the computer and download programs onto it. Upon downloading a program, we are unsure how to get our robot back into manual drive mode, where you just turn on the cortex and as long as the motors are plugged in the right place the joysticks will control them. We tried opening the sample program and downloading it to the robot, but in order to run the program we need the robot to be plugged into the computer. When we unplugged it and plugged in the VexNet to connect to the joystick nothing happened. I’m just wondering if there is a way to get back to the default programming of the cortex without downloading a program.
Once you have downloaded a ROBOTC program, the VEX provided default program is no longer available unless the cortex is restored to factory default using the VEXnet upgrade utility. However, ROBOTC does contain a simulation of the default drive code, using the file menu, select “Open Sample Program” navigate to the advanced folder and then select “ROBOTC VEX Cortex Default.c”. Make sure to download to the robot using the competition communication mode.
