So..What's Everybody's Initial Opinion?
 

Posted by Tom Vanderslice.

Student on team #275, ORHS/AST/Hitachi, from Academy of Science and Technology and Hitachi.

Posted on 8/19/99 9:09 PM MST



So what's everybody think about the change of plans fot he control system...letting us keep them etc.

I personally like the idea and am looking forward to getting the new system...

Tom

Re: So..What's Everybody's Initial Opinion?
 

Posted by Kate.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #190, Gompei, from Mass Academy of Math and Science and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Posted on 8/19/99 11:25 PM MST


In Reply to: So..What's Everybody's Initial Opinion? posted by Tom Vanderslice on 8/19/99 9:09 PM MST:



My first reaction to this news was.. Oh shoot.. I have to come up with $1000 more than usual.. We already have enough trouble coming up with what $$ we need.. How are we going to come up with another $1000?!?

Then I thought about it.. And realized that I would no longer need to pretend that we had a control system during the times that we normally haven't.. No longer would I have to 'hotwire' the 'bot if you will to show what each mechanism does.. I'm liking it more and more as I think about it..

-KATE-
Eat, Sleep, Dream FIRST.

Re: So..What's Everybody's Initial Opinion?
 

Posted by Jon.

Engineer on team #190, Gompei, from Mass Academy of Math and Science and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Posted on 8/20/99 12:01 AM MST


In Reply to: So..What's Everybody's Initial Opinion? posted by Tom Vanderslice on 8/19/99 9:09 PM MST:



I like getting to keep the control system... means that we could have 2000 vs 2001 robot demos... that'd be cool...
i heard the new control system has more computing power... does anyone know if it'll help straighten out some of the calculational errors encountered in the past?

Re: So..What's Everybody's Initial Opinion?
 

Posted by Lloyd Burns.

Coach on team #188, Woburn Robotics, from Woburn Collegiate and Canada 3000, ScotiaBank, Royal Bank Financial.

Posted on 8/20/99 10:02 AM MST


In Reply to: Re: So..What's Everybody's Initial Opinion? posted by Jon on 8/20/99 12:01 AM MST:



: I like getting to keep the control system... means that we could have 2000 vs 2001 robot demos... that'd be cool...
: i heard the new control system has more computing power... does anyone know if it'll help straighten out some of the calculational errors encountered in the past?

From my e-mail to Eric, the CPU next year will be the SX version of the Basic Stamp, the only difference in the PBasic is that it has commands for reading and writing to the EAPROM, and you can select one of 8 2K programs in the EAPROM, instead of having only default and whatever you have.

This does mean you're stuck with adding constants so your variable will be always positive.

I now have two systems (97 ?), one of which I have cloned to work with all the other First parts. Maybe with two of them running at 50 Mhz, and the resulting 16 PWM outputs, 8 analog inputs and 16 relays outputs, we might get enough controls....