Hi everyone,
We're started a new video series to teach teams how to use off-the-shelf sensors from a variety of sources on their robot. During our two years in FTC, we've noticed that many teams struggle with programming using sensors both for autonomous and for driver assistance during TeleOp. Our hope is that teams can learn something from these videos that will be useful to them in their upcoming season.
The sensors we are covering are some that are already used in FRC but that we have not seen used in FTC much or at all.
Episode 1: The "Leftoverbot Control System" describes how we used our leftovers from the old control system (pre-ResQ) to make robots for outreach events at no cost to us.
Episode 2: We program a Sharp Analog Distance Sensor (< $10)
Episode 3: We wire and program a generic potentiometer (< $1)
With more episodes on the way and source code posted on GitHub (as we figure that out).
We'd love it if teams could check out our YouTube Channel and subscribe if you like what you see. We'd also love to hear any comments or feedback you have to help us make our future videos even better!
You can find it here:
https://www.youtube.com/c/FTCTeam4962TheRockettes