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Originally Posted by Dominick Ferone
Sweet because this may be something I have our programmers do just as an off season challenge.
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I know I'm dragging up an old post, but if you want to know more about our code for this year, we just started up
a thread about all our code.
I can comment a bit about how things went from a programming side of things. On Thursday, one of our mentors who had been observing 1114 hands me a sheet of paper detailing about how their mechanism worked. At this point we were thinking that we were simply going to remove the superstructure from our robot, and mount whatever crazy contraption they had on our ~50 pound drive train. We quickly looked at the labview examples for doing pneumatics and solenoids, and began redoing our project, removing code for our arm and instead changing it to work with 4 "PWM" Solenoids, 4 Pneumatic solenoids, and 4 winches. Unfortunatly our details weren't exaclty right the first time around, but as our team began working more and more with 1114, we learned more about the design, and eventually learned that we needed to set up 4 solenoids controlled by a singlespike, 4 pneumatic solenoids, and 5 winches. By this time we were only halfway through, and then we learned that our swerve drive was just two heavy, and that 1114 had some java code ready to go for the tank drive KOP that we were buying. We decided that they had probably already tested their code and new more about it, so we ended it at that.
New problems arose the next day when we had to set up a driver station. As a LabVIEW team, I had never seen the Java Dashboard, and it took a lot for 1114 to explain to me what it was. I thougth they were talking about the default one for at least a half hour (sorry). Eventually we copied it out of the tools folder from one of their laptops and dropped it into (hopefully the correct place) onto one of ours. We had no idea if it was going to work though, so we eventually just used one of 1114's laptops. Apparently there was some problem with the version used in inspection, but I have no idea, as I went back to the stands to watch some matches.
I'm sad that we never got to see the robot on the field, but it was fun watching all the matches from down near the field. The experience of working with 1114 and all the rest was amazing, and I know what part of Canada to go to now if I ever want to leave the US. And thankfully I didn't have to do any more programming under pressure on the field (I was the guy at NC regional pushing code at the last second for Team 900, if you were there). Thank you so much 1114, 148, and 1923!