Guys, please be careful. You're responding with incorrect and/or misleading information and this is going to be confusing to the original poster.
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Originally Posted by plnyyanks
In case you're wondering, the microcontroller is a PIC 18 |
No, it's not a PIC. As Mark mentioned above, the user processor in the really old IFI equipment (pre-2004) is a BASIC Stamp, from Parallax, programmed in PBASIC. Also as Mark pointed out, this is a hardware thing - there's no way to use C on those old controllers no matter what you do.
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Originally Posted by plnyyanks
If you need some resources on programming those (C) controllers, I have some links in this post that you should probably check out. You can also find lots of information about the control system (click on a certain part for more information) and the RC on IFI's website. If you need the software to program the controllers, I have links for finding them in this post, and Kevin Watson (the guy who wrote the old FIRST libraries) has tons of resources from various years. Of course, the easiest thing to do would be to find the disc that came in the KOP a few years back that had all the software on it already. |
This is good info for RCs from 2004 and on. Just to clarify though, none of those links are useful for a 2001 RC (I know you qualified it by saying that it was for the C-based controllers, but I want to make sure that it is clear that this applies to 2004 RCs and later only). Kevin Watson's stuff is great but it's for the 2004 and later controllers; it will be no use for 2001-2003 controllers.
Sconrad, the best place for you to get everything you need is the previously-linked
Innovation FIRST page. Go to the bottom and look at the resources under "FRC Documentation for 2001 - 2003". It should have everything you need.