Flashing roborio
Renaming the RoboRIO
- Plug the roboRIO into a robot for power
- Connect the roboRIO to your laptop via USB
- Open the roboRIO imaging tool
- If not detecting anything click rescan
- Select "Edit Startup Settings"
- Click to modify the "Team Number" box
- Enter your team number (1747 for us)
- Click apply
- Disconnect the roboRIO from the robot and the laptop
Flashing the RoboRIO
- Plug the roboRIO into a robot for power
- Connect the roboRIO to your laptop via USB
- Open the roboRIO imaging tool
- If not detecting anything click rescan
- Under system information check current image
- Record the name of the image
- Click format target underneath the "Team Number" box
- Select the image you recorded earlier under "Select Image"
- Click SD to open the file exporer at the location of that image and record the path there
- Disconnect the roboRIO from the robot and the laptop
- Take the SD card out of the roboRIO and put it into a device such as a microSD to USB dongle
- Plug the device into your laptop
- If you've not yet done so, download and install balenaEtcher
- Launch balenaEtcher
- Select "Flash from file" and then select the correct image by following the path recorded earlier
- Select "Select target" and select the destination device where the SD card is currently
- Press "Flash"
- Remove the SD card from the device and put it back into the roboRIO