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Robot Characterization with the frc-characterization utility

To install

  1. Install the latest version of Python 3.7

    Note: The latest version of Python 3.7.10, but there is no official binary available. Instead, we can use Python 3.7.9, which can be downloaded at python.org/downloads.

  2. If you have multiple version of Python installed, you will need to use the following command to install the frc-characterization utility from pip.

    %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\python.exe -m pip install frc-characterization

To run

  1. If you have multiple version of Python installed, you will need to use the following command to run the frc-characterization utility with the correct Python version.

    %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\python.exe %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\Lib\site-packages\frc_characterization\__main__.py

  2. When prompted to "Choose which mechanism you are characterizing", enter 1 for drive

  3. When prompted with "Characterization Tools: drive", enter 1 for new, which will take you to the main window.

Further Instructions and Additional Information

See https://docs.wpilib.org/en/stable/docs/software/wpilib-tools/robot-characterization/index.html for a general overview and step by step details.

Note that this guide assumes that one only has Python 3.7 installed, with no other Python installations alongside it. The purpose of the above sections are to assist with this.


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