From Zero to Swerve

This is a basic introduction to initializing a RobotPy (WPILib Python) project to the spec of the team. I won't go in-depth on standards or code, but this will get a deployable 'Hello World!' to run on a RoboRIO. Other docs for actual swerve, hardware, etc are elsewhere.

Prior to reading this, you should familiarize yourself with Pipenv and read up on some of the official docs, as well as our philosophies for programming and standards*.

*Some of these pages are incomplete and not yet written.

Initialize your Codebase

Likely, you will be starting from something already, but this is assuming you aren't. For example, the swerve-template project which contains the basis of a swerve drive style drivetrain in Python. If you are not starting from a template, you will likely need to initialize the repository with pipenv. I will not document this here unless it becomes necessary, but the basic idea of creating a Git Repository from scratch and installing dependencies with pipenv is straightforward.