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Briansmithtown

25-05-2014, 20:09

I was wondering what those white controllers with the 2 black switches were?

EricH

25-05-2014, 20:20

I took at look at the TechnoKats History Project (http://www.technokats.org/history-project/) archive for 1992. As nearly as I can tell, it looks like they were custom controllers, particularly given the drawing, which appears to show that one controller had 2 handheld units, each having 2 switches.

My, the control system has come a long way...

Mark McLeod

25-05-2014, 21:56

Here's a diagram
http://www.team358.org/files/programming/ControlSystem1993/1993TermiflexController.jpg

and the robot side looked like
http://www.team358.org/files/programming/ControlSystem1993/1993Microcontroller.jpg

Briansmithtown

26-05-2014, 00:19

We should still use these!

Al Skierkiewicz

26-05-2014, 13:20

These were not wireless controllers.

Alan Anderson

26-05-2014, 13:29

We should still use these!

Team 45 still does, occasionally. We sometimes show off our 1992 robot ("Cornvette") at demo events.

AdamHeard

26-05-2014, 13:35

We should still use these!

971 would have a fit.

EricH

26-05-2014, 13:36

Team 45 still does, occasionally. We sometimes show off our 1992 robot ("Cornvette") at demo events.

Can someone get a picture of the '92 robot next to a current robot, with control system? (And, if there are some around, how about including a robot using the IFI system and/or whatever the system was in the late '90s?)

Just for the scale difference, and all that.

Mark McLeod

26-05-2014, 14:19

Here is a side-by-side picture of two of the robots on display at FIRST HQ.

Alan Anderson

26-05-2014, 15:29

Here's Cornvette (1992) facing off against KatsKlaw (2004).
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img/362/3629cccecbea4f675262aa8bd4a121fe_l.jpg
The 1992 robot has no "control system" to speak of. It uses mechanical switches wired directly to motors.

Briansmithtown

26-05-2014, 20:38