RobotPy Dev Setup with Miniconda

Intro

In this post, we’ll look at setting up a development environment for RobotPy using Miniconda. You should follow the directions below and have a basic working RobotPy dev setup with minimal effort. Let’s get started.

1. Download and install Miniconda from this page.
2. Open a terminal with the cmd command

3. Create an environment with Miniconda

    conda create --name robotpy python=3.9
   

4. Activate the environment

    conda activate robotpy
   

5. Install the robotpy libraries and dependencies

    pip install --upgrade robotpy[all]
   

6. Create a folder for your source code
7. Create a test file in the folder and copy in one code from one of the example files here

8. Test the code

    python robot.py test
   

9. Run a simulation with the code

    python robot.py sim
   

Closing the loop

If you followed the steps above you should now have a working dev environment ready to use when writing and debugging your RobotPy code. For tools for writing the code, I would recommend starting with Visual Studio Code. Have fun and watch for more as the FRC season continues, till then fair winds and following seas.