Team Xbot 488 Beta Presentation (Redmond, WA)
 

We presented our beta findings to ~80 people in Redmond, WA today - thanks to all for attending!

Right now I'm including a link to the programming presentation below:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resi...nt=file%2cpptx

Once I get the deck for the electrical presentation I will attach that as well.

We also have a recording of the presentation, but that won't be available right away. I'll post it in here once it's ready.

If you have any questions, please ask them below! We'll answer them to the best of our ability - and if we can't, another beta team can probably do it better.

Thanks again to those who attended in person!

Re: Team Xbot 488 Beta Presentation (Redmond, WA)
 

Excellent presentation John!

A big thanks to you, Larry and all the other facilitators. This was extremely beneficial for all the teams who attended!

Regards,
Rob Trahms
Chill Out Team 1778

Re: Team Xbot 488 Beta Presentation (Redmond, WA)
 

Yes, definitely a great learning experience!

If Larry is here and reading this, do you think you can post a link to your PowerPoint? That would be awesome!

I will think of some questions to ask soon.

-Joe

Re: Team Xbot 488 Beta Presentation (Redmond, WA)
 

Update:
Here is a link to Larry's PowerPoint after he emailed it to me:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1z...ew?usp=sharing

Re: Team Xbot 488 Beta Presentation (Redmond, WA)
 

Neat presentation, it outlines what's new and different really well. I didn't realize the roboRIO supports Java 8 now, which is awesome because Java 8 is awesome. Does the roboRIO read java bytecode? if so, we could be seeing some bots programmed in jvm languages like Scala and Clojure, which would be really cool.

Could you post the code you used for the perf testing? I'm curious how you tested it.

Re: Team Xbot 488 Beta Presentation (Redmond, WA)
 

I think it would be fairly easy to run other JVM languages because the roboRIO uses the standard Oracle Java SE Embedded (you actually have to go to the Oracle site to download it).

Re: Team Xbot 488 Beta Presentation (Redmond, WA)
 

Oh cool. Depending on weather the build tools are modifiable or not, this could be fairly easy. If they're using something like Gradle, then adding in another language to your project will be trivial. If they aren't using something like gradle, we'll just have to hope they've opensourced it. GitHub's a sponsor, maybe they'll post it there?

And if it's java, we can get minecraft to run on it. Anybody want to write some OpenGL drivers?

Re: Team Xbot 488 Beta Presentation (Redmond, WA)
 

The source for WPILib is available, but you have to have an account on the FRC TeamForge to access it. They might allow anonymous access soon. I believe the build scripts still use Ant, so you might be able to make it work.

I'm thinking about trying to write autonomous scripts in Javascript with Nashorn, but it might not be worth it because we don't have to reboot to upload code anymore.