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Originally Posted by Phil Paspalas
I am the advisor to a new team. I am becoming increasingly concerned with the programming and control sub-team and a lack of ability to make progress. We received the Robovation kit only last week and I sent one of the kids home with it and he was not able to get things going.
Where can I steer my kids for the definitive resource to gain basic control over our team robot. Any ideas/resources would be appreciated!
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The biggest problem I've seen is knowing where to start. I printed out copies of the guide documents for the RC, OI and the EDU unit. I also copied the docs on the default, user and edu programs. Arranging them in a binder with tabs gave our group a central place for documentation.
Read the docs so you know how things work. That way you can give your group targeted tasks they can complete like:
Install the MPLAB IDE, compiler and IFI loader
Wire the EDU computer as shown in the guide
Connect the EDU computer to a PC and download the default code
Change the default code, compile and download it
It's fairly easy when you figure out where to start.