VEX V5

About

In 2021, I started competing in the VEX robotics competition. This was my first real application using C++ (ignoring Arduino). On the tooling side, I learned about makefiles and managing dependencies in the C/C++ ecosystem.

To improve IDE integration and remove platform-specific build code, I rewrote the program’s makefile as a CMake project in my second year of robotics. Compared to Makefiles, I found CMake to be much simpler to use and quickly iterate on. It handled cross-compilation surprisingly well and made building with different compilers significantly easier.

Features

• Runtime sensor diagnostic information and debug tools on the screen (LVGL)
  • Runtime PID tuning
  • Real-time graphing of sensor information
  • Select autonomous run via the screen
• Uses a CMake project instead of Makefiles (compared to a typical PROS project)
  • Improved IDE support (can generate a Visual Studio project)
  • Run clang-tidy or clang-format over the project’s sources
  • Simplified dependency management
  • Better support across operating systems
  • Simplified build process