Re: My arduino Wifi controlled Robot
 

Not really meant for FTC, but it sounds like you're just looking for ways to drive robots outside of comp. Ours might be a good fit depending on what you want. http://www.ctr-electronics.com/net-g...oards/hro.html

Vex has some control solutions too...
http://www.vexrobotics.com/276-2194.html

AM's got some options...
http://www.andymark.com/product-p/am-2827.htm

Or wait did you mean future FTC candidates?

Re: My arduino Wifi controlled Robot
 

When FIRST said they were not interested I put it to work in alarm systems where a small, flexible, multiprocessor system that can scale has some benefit.

The Turtle module from our proposal: which has the radio and FIRST related stuff (so named because it was hardened and designed to be on lower radio frequency than we use now on purpose) is in a box somewhere in my shop.

Mind you there was nothing wrong with it but before I bank roll a robot control system without a clear committed customer I would rather get this Makerspace thing going. Then if there is interest I can revive it.

Foster if you are interested I can send you the proposal we made.

Re: My arduino Wifi controlled Robot
 

I'm always on the lookout for a easy to use (simple tool chain) with a reasonable number of ports for motors, GPIO analog that is inexpensive.

The roboRio is in the high cost category and it has a complex tool chain, but it has a ton of options.

I have both the VEX Cortex and the brain for the IQ and like how they work. And RobotC works well on both of them. I'd like to see a free standing rotational sensor for IQ. Love the IME built into the motors, but would like to be able to measure angles (like the EDR red potentiometers)

Lots of RasbPi hats along with Arduino Shields make them possibilities. But the open circuitry makes them a little messy to start and then a big mess when you get everything wired up to it.

Re: My arduino Wifi controlled Robot
 

The RobotOpen platform is alive and well...our Gorgon controller is a third generation device based on Arduino.

http://www.andymark.com/product-p/am-2900.htm

It isn't the newest freshest flavor of whatever is available in the market, but that's part of its charm. Arduino is widely supported and very easy to interface with.

The integrated driver station and use of gamepads makes it very similar to FRC style setups and it supports the normal suite of sensors you might use for typical mobile applications.

Bets of all you get integrated pneumatics solenoid drivers!!

We use it all the time for internal projects and really love it. :o

Re: My arduino Wifi controlled Robot
 

this is really cool. We have been messing with this same idea over the past couple years but with Labview. We took a slightly different approach and made it so you can develop code on a small robot and then directly port it to the FRC robot and vice versa with no code changes. You can also drive your robot with this however we do not have a watch dog implemented yet so you have to be very careful while driving the big robot with it.

We have mainly been using it to teach Labview to the students so that each kid can have a small robot to learn with and test there code.

If you are interested here is are release video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFmnmp_VHHU

Her is it in action with an arm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llu7zepKHXU