Forum: Electrical
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Forum: Programming
Today, 02:40 PM
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Team 5687 The Outliers 2016 Code Release
Although we keep all of our code (https://github.com/frc5687) public all year-round, we'd like to share direct links to our 2016 code in the spirit of R13.
Please find below:
Stronghold robot code...
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Forum: Programming
Today, 08:40 AM
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Forum: Programming
12-30-2016, 10:51 PM
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Forum: Programming
12-30-2016, 05:38 PM
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Forum: General Forum
12-22-2016, 06:31 PM
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Re: RGB LED Lights
We run our RGB strips, ringlight, and targetting flashlight off of the roborio using PWM and a mosfet circuit based on a sample from adafruit. Very clean and simple.
Here's the adafruit link:...
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Forum: Programming
12-19-2016, 11:33 PM
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Re: Seeking advice for rookie programming
I think you misunderstood my point. I have also spent a fair amount of time in other teams' pits helping with code--but they were rarely neighboring teams! My point is simply that the fact that...
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Forum: Programming
12-19-2016, 10:21 PM
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Re: Getting started with Java for FRC
Our team switched from Eclipse to IntelliJ last season, and I personally would never want to go back.
I put together a "getting started (https://github.com/frc5687/chassisbot/wiki/Getting-Started)"...
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Forum: Programming
12-19-2016, 10:02 PM
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Re: Seeking advice for rookie programming
There are lots of good arguments on both sides in this thread, but I think that sticking with what your team as a whole knows best will serve you better. When push comes to shove, your team needs to...
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Forum: Programming
12-12-2016, 05:30 PM
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Re: network tables and the raspberry pi
I'll let you judge whether it's "good" or not, but we do have both ends of the UDP communication in our github.
On the pi, we run pi-tracker (https://github.com/frc5687/pi-tracker) and communicaton...
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Forum: Programming
12-12-2016, 03:44 PM
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Re: network tables and the raspberry pi
We encountered substantially more lag with NetworkTables than with straight UDP. Plus, we would occasionally see odd behavior in the NT version that may or may not have been caused by NT bugs. ...
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Forum: Programming
11-28-2016, 08:04 PM
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Forum: Programming
11-28-2016, 08:01 PM
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Re: Camera not relaying to Smartdashboard
A couple of things:
1) You need to reference the camera differently:
server.startAutomaticCapture("cam1");
2) You need to call setSize to specify resolution:
server.setSize(1); // force...
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Forum: Electrical
11-27-2016, 10:39 PM
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Re: 2017 Access Point Configuration Issue
There's a note on the AndyMark page (http://www.andymark.com/FRC-Radio-OM5P-AC-p/am-3205.htm) saying:
"Note: Default firmware is not able to be used in a local AP configurations, for FIRST Robotics...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
11-11-2016, 11:36 PM
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Re: Vision Tracking?
I highly recommend watching this video from Team 254 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLwOkAJqImo&feature=youtu.be) and reading through the presentation directly...
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Forum: Control System
10-20-2016, 11:10 PM
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Re: TI Launchpad "Bricked"?
Thanks @wt200999 for all the information in this thread. We encountered most of the problems described by others while flashing our launchpad tonight...and thanks to this thread we got it...
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Forum: Programming
10-12-2016, 09:40 PM
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Forum: Programming
10-12-2016, 09:37 PM
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Re: network tables and the raspberry pi
There are a few threads on the subject here, but if you just want code, please feel free to look at our 2016 pi-tracker in github: https://github.com/frc5687/pi-tracker.
Also included is the...
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Forum: Off-Season Events
06-11-2016, 09:53 AM
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Re: Mayhem in Merrimack 2016
We really enjoyed Mayhem, and wouldn't change the structure. I was among those confused by the playoffs--but luckily I had a student who got it and explained it to me. We're looking forward to Week...
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Forum: Rules/Strategy
03-29-2016, 12:21 PM
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Replies: 47
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Forum: General Forum
03-14-2016, 02:32 PM
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Replies: 68
Views: 9,006
Re: Lights to help aim
Controlling your light via a relay should avoid this complaint. I've seen several teams (oursleves included) that turn their light on as part of their firing sequence. We tend to already be turned...
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Forum: Java
03-10-2016, 10:25 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 1,712
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Forum: General Forum
03-10-2016, 01:23 PM
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Replies: 92
Views: 9,280
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Forum: Control System
03-08-2016, 10:01 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 629
Re: Vision Processing with OM5P-AN
Consider one of these. You could even permanently mount it to the robot and wire it to your VRM to make tethering quicker and easier.
One downside of that approach is that your Axis would have to...
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Forum: Java
03-08-2016, 09:48 PM
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Replies: 9
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Re: How to program Talon SRX Encoders?
I assume the error you are getting is when you call enc.start(), since you are never initializing the enc variable. You declare it up top at:
Encoder enc;
You also need to initialize it,...
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