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Originally Posted by DavisDad
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- September 5 (guess)- FTC 2015/2016 Kickoff
My rest of the school year plan as mentor:
- Since our team has limited financial resources, I want to figure out what is required to buy through FTC kits and what can be purchased more cheaply. I've already bought 2 used ZTE Speed phones on eBay, a USB hub & some USB-OTG cables for experimenting. I paid about $90 for the lot, and the FTC Kit costs $268.
I've gotten the phone to link with "Wi-Fi direct", gotten "Hello World" programs to work on a ZTE (both Android Studio & App Inventor). I'm now working on getting a game controller hooked up to the driver phone and send something to the robot phone; I'm thinking a button press on the Logitech would initiate the "Hello World" program on the robot phone. |
Kickoff is September 12th.
When doing through the registration process, you HAVE to buy one of the "control" sets, lowest one is $10 and includes a cable, hub and binder. We bought our phones through Best buy for 40 a pop, at 4 phones (2 teams). So it looks like you will have to spend another 10 dollars.
I'm currently making multiple different ZTE Phone mounts that will connect to Tetrix and Actobotics easily that I will release to everyone that has a 3d printer.