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Originally Posted by JStein
A couple of Team Argos mentors (me included) worked through the off season to build a training platform for the FRC community. We've used the Argobot throughout our build season to get our software/controls students up to speed quickly, with many students able to go from never having run LabVIEW to getting the Argobot running in 60 minutes. They've learned about using touch, proximity, ultrasonic and inertial sensors over the past 6 weeks, most of which are being used on our robot. It's based on the Digilent WF32 board running LINX, and has a whole host of tutorials on YouTube to get started. |
This is very cool. The Argos seems like the perfect place to start, however the price is a wee bit steep for an impulse-buy. I guess it's an investment in my knowledge and ability to help the team. Is there no cheaper (think $100-150) way to get into this?