IR Tracking & Navigation
 

Attached is a copy of some notes I put together for the IR Tracking stuff. I decided to share it everyone. Hope you like it.

Disclaimer: This was only to serve as a guide, please check the code for exact values and operations.

Mike

Re: IR Tracking & Navigation
 

This is what FIRST should have included. Unless something got lost from our kit (quite likely), I had no clue about even the basic setup of the system. This is a broad overview of the default code and the theory of the algorithm. I always believe that the easiest way to learn something is to get a general sense of what it does and then dive into specifics. By not releasing any detailed docs, FIRST just made a lot of us lost in the specifics of the code.

There are also some pictures of a sample setup on http://www.kevin.org/frc somewhere, but they don't appear to be linked from that thread. A simple search in the programming or electrical forums will bring these pics up.

My suggestion: Add pictures of your setup to the doc (or graciously and professionally rip Kevin Watson's pictures) and submit it as a whitepaper.

+rep

Re: IR Tracking & Navigation
 

Feel free to graciously and professionally rip anything from my website for inclusion in your documentation. BTW, the pictures are located here: http://kevin.org/frc/tracker everything else is here: http://kevin.org/frc

-Kevin

Re: IR Tracking & Navigation
 

I am working on building an IR beacon, which pins are which, i found a diagram of the outside, what the packaging type was supposed to be from the docs i downloaded off of kevin's website, but there is a notch that doesn't exist on the one we got from the kit. So which pin is which?