Mecanum Drive Base

Simple code written using RobotPy for a mecanum drive.

Installation

First, create a virtual environment. Virutal environments keep our projects seperate from each other and organized. All Python pacakges for this project will be installed inside the virtual environment.

python -m venv .venv

This command invokes python, and calls an application named venv. venv will create our virtual environment for us. We give our virtual environment a name, .venv.

Second, we activate our virtual environment.

.venv\Scripts\activate.bat

By running activate.bat, we have activated the virtual environment, and we're ready to download packages.

Packages are pieces of code written by other people that make programming easier for us. To install packages, we'll use a tool called pip.

Notice, a file named requirements.txt exists in this project. requirements.txt contains a list of all the packages we need for the project. There should be one package in requirements.txt, robotpy.

To install the packages...

pip install -r requirements.txt

The -r flag tells pip to install all the packages it finds in the file we give it (in this case, requirements.txt).

Once, pip is done installing packages, we're ready to go! Have fun coding!

Running

To run the robot code in a simulator...

python -m robot sim

Recall, python -m calls upon python to run a program. Here, we're running the robot.py program.

Deploying

To run the robot code on an actual robot...

python -m robot deploy