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Originally Posted by emusteve
Our team is built on the philosophy that we're here to give the students an opportunity to learn learn skills and practices in an environment that they can't get anywhere else. Mentors, Parents, and Teacher work with STUDENTS who design an build the robot. The thing might work great, or fall flat on it's provervbial face. It's what is learned in the process, not the end result that is most important!
Steve
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I agree with you Steve. I took on the task of mentoring our programming team this year. Lots of code was written, re-written and scraped. In the end, we have a function that improves joystick control and switch feedback to keep from overextending our arm. Autonomous mode is simple extending our arm ( a three step move) and driving forward.
What is coolest about this is that all of the code was written by the students.
They learned how to use the IFI manuals to select a joystick input or designate a digital input.
I for one, have had enough of activities were the parents do and the kids watch.
