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Originally Posted by Donut
For teams that have robots from before 2004, how effective are the RC and OI on them for testing with the kind of things we do now? We have 3 sets of controls from those years sitting around that could be used to build a robot, but no remaining member (and maybe 1 mentor) has experience programming them, and I'm not quite sure if they'd be worth the hassle to learn so that we could use them.
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How big is the spaces at the rent a storage - they're pretty cheap and if the space is high and wide enough you may be able to get a couple of storage spaces in a storage building for dirt cheap all though I do like the empty container idea the down side to that is not every school has the property to keep one of those handy. Any other Storage Solutions ?
The Controllers are every bit as the same accept the added feature of the LEDs and of course software upgrades & Programming Language. That in reality is only thing that seperates the controllers from 1999 - 2003 and 2004 - Current.
From 1999 - 2003 I think the programming language was PBasic
And From 2004 to the Future the programming language is C++ which is alot more powerful and you can do alot more in the program (Autonomous and other extras)
Personally with what we do now you probably will not be able to get done a whole lot. You can go ahead and build a robot but to practice programming it you would need a complete controller setup from 2004 onwards. Theres no point hooking something up that understands PBasic and then transfering it to a newer setup then only understands C++. I don't like to be negative but thats how it is - believe it or not these controllers take a beating and ceases to amaze me how they are still able to work.
Heres a question: Of all the teams that have their robots in one piece, Does everything 100% work as if it were day 1 all over again or are some of the robots a big "rusty" - And do you still have a 100% complete OI Setup for each of the working robots?
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Past FIRST Robotics Events that I proudly volunteered at:
FLL: NY State Competition '03
FRC: NYC Remote Kickoff '04 & NYC Regionals '04-'15 ,'10-'13 & NJ Regionals '06-'10, Finger Lakes Regional '09 & SBPLI Regional '08-'15 and the World Championship in '05 (Galileo Field) '07 (Newton Field) '09 (Practice Fields Attendant / FTA(A)), CeBIT Convention in '04 & NextFEST in '06 both held @ the Javitts Center, Monty Madness '07-'10, Panda-monium '08, B.Eruption '08 & '09, Ramp Riot '08, PARC '09 & '10, BR^2 '09 & Wol. Inv. '09 -'15
2015 FIRST Robotics Off Season Events that I hope to volunteer at:
Where is Wolcott Invitational
2015 FIRST Robotics Events that I will be volunteering at:
SBPLI Reg. & Championships
Volunteer Resume:
Alt & Lead Team Queuer, Field Repair/Reset, Field Setup/Breakdown, Spare Parts Attendant, Field Power Controller/Score Keeper, Co-Emcee & Official Scorer, Control System Advisor, FIRST Tech Advisor Assistant & recently Practice Field Attendant.