Forum: Electrical
06-12-2016, 21:39
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Replies: 5
Views: 566
Re: Schematic capture and simulation
Thanks everyone.
We decided to use NI Multisim.
http://forums.ni.com/t5/FIRST-Robotics-Competition/Multisim-Ultiboard-and-Statechart-Module/ta-p/3533182
The license key we have for Labview also...
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Forum: Electrical
04-12-2016, 07:02
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Replies: 5
Views: 566
Schematic capture and simulation
Hey Teams,
We have a student on our team that has taken an interest in electrical design. He is exploring digital logic and basic circuit design and wants to use some real software instead of...
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Forum: Control System
05-06-2016, 09:46
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Replies: 3
Views: 592
Rasberry Pi for a demo robot driver station
We are putting together a demo robot that interacts with the crowd and thinking about different ways to have a smaller driver station.
Our demo robot is using a RRIO and programmed in labview.
One of...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
05-06-2016, 09:26
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Replies: 45
Views: 4,489
Re: Lathe Suggestions
We purchased this lathe last year: http://www.micromark.com/microlux-7x16-mini-lathe,9615.html
We were limited on space and could only handle a benchtop lathe.
We put the lathe ontop of this rolling...
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Forum: General Forum
27-05-2016, 14:19
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Replies: 36
Views: 3,611
Re: How to Get New Members to Stay?
My words of advice (from a 3 yr old team).... Start EARLY....The earlier the better.
Last year we decided to go visit the 8th graders at their school in May (before they come to the high school). ...
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Forum: NI LabVIEW
12-02-2016, 21:35
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Replies: 3
Views: 444
Re: Where is SD WRITE?
Thanks for the quick advice. I love the responsiveness we get from postings on chief delphi. Now I just need to get my students to understand they can post a question when they don't find the answer...
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Forum: NI LabVIEW
11-02-2016, 19:01
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Replies: 3
Views: 444
Where is SD WRITE?
We are trying to figure out how to write variables from robot code to the smart dashboard. Our Programmers recall something called SD Write from last year, and we can't find it anywhere.
How do we...
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Forum: Electrical
06-02-2016, 07:26
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Replies: 8
Views: 865
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Forum: General Forum
05-02-2016, 06:53
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Replies: 40
Views: 4,015
Re: Mentor Roles
hauki,
1st.... THANKYOU for volunteering to help. Many of these students don't appreciate the value of having a engineering mentor. Just ask the teams that don't have any engineering mentors and...
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Forum: Electrical
04-02-2016, 23:16
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Replies: 8
Views: 865
Re: Bad PWM cables?
We tend to use victors. No preference, its just what we have accumulated over the last 3 yrs.
The intermittent connection last year was definitely with a victor.
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Forum: Electrical
04-02-2016, 22:51
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Replies: 8
Views: 865
Bad PWM cables?
I'm looking for a little guidance from those experienced with multiple seasons of FRC electronics.
We are a team entering our 3rd year and my electrical team this year handed me 6 PWM cables and...
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Forum: NI LabVIEW
03-02-2016, 17:18
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Replies: 5
Views: 494
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Forum: NI LabVIEW
02-02-2016, 22:25
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Replies: 5
Views: 494
Re: Why is Mode light RED?
I'll check tomorrow. I don't recall seeing that on the driver station, but now see it on the dasboard. What does Test mode do if we are using Labview? would it disable any of the motor...
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Forum: NI LabVIEW
02-02-2016, 20:06
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Replies: 5
Views: 494
Why is Mode light RED?
We are having issues with downloading code to our RRIO. We have verifed the RRIO image is correct, and the PDP firmware has also been updated. On this robot we have a PDP from 2015 robot.
When we...
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Forum: NI LabVIEW
31-01-2016, 12:19
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Replies: 4
Views: 350
Re: Troubles connecting to RobotRio
Changing network priority was something I couldn't figure out, but just found this page to explain how to do this:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2526067
I'm posting this for other teams...
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Forum: NI LabVIEW
31-01-2016, 09:50
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Replies: 4
Views: 350
Re: Troubles connecting to RobotRio
I found the problem. I noticed the laptop was also connected to a wifi connection that was connected to the internet. Once I disabled the wifi on the laptop, I was able to connect to the RRIO via the...
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Forum: NI LabVIEW
31-01-2016, 09:04
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Replies: 4
Views: 350
Troubles connecting to RobotRio
We are having issues connecting to any of our 3 RobotRios with labview to deploy new code. The laptop is able to connect to the RRIO and image it with a USB cable. We can also access 172.22.11.2 and...
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Forum: Technical Discussion
31-01-2016, 08:31
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Replies: 22
Views: 2,856
Re: Chain Tension-er?
Our team was in the same situation last year. We use 16' of chain to drive our lifting mechanism to lift totes/bin. We spent 2 days trying to figure out how to tension the chain, and in the end...
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Forum: FIRST Lego League
10-05-2015, 15:20
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,215
Re: Is the EV3 Robot Set enough?
Thanks for the responses. All very helpful
Does the base kit have any sensors included, such that we can follow a line or determine colors?
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Forum: FIRST Lego League
07-05-2015, 06:55
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,215
Is the EV3 Robot Set enough?
Hi,
Our FRC team is going to help start up 4 FLL teams from one school this coming year. This would be 4 individually registered teams that would share 1 field for their practice field and they are...
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Forum: Electrical
08-02-2015, 08:58
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Replies: 5
Views: 878
Re: Trying to determine wheel location
To clarify....
We need wheel location and don't care about robot location.
Our challenge is ....we are using omni wheels and the middle strafing wheel does get enough traction to push our robot...
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Forum: Electrical
07-02-2015, 22:16
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Replies: 5
Views: 878
Trying to determine wheel location
We are experimenting with an idea on our robot where we need to know the position of a wheel to make a decision. We have very little experience with sensors but learning quickly this year (2nd...
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Forum: NI LabVIEW
06-02-2015, 14:17
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Replies: 2
Views: 554
Re: Help with debugging read of DIO
Thanks Mark.
I'll try that when we get to the shop today.
I was working under the impression that a limit switch needs to go "high" to 5V and Low "GND".
Wiring the switch so the read can determine...
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Forum: NI LabVIEW
06-02-2015, 08:04
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Replies: 2
Views: 554
Help with debugging read of DIO
We have some code that we think should work but when we probe it on the test bench the DIO logic never changes when the limit switch is pressed. We confirmed the wiring is proper with a volt meter....
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Forum: Pneumatics
29-11-2014, 09:18
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,091
Where to buy bimba and pneumatics supplies.
Hi all,
My team is entering their 2nd year and starting to experiment with pneumatics. I noticed most teams are using bimba cylinders but it seems andymark and vex don't sell them. Can you tell share...
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