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Originally Posted by mtaman02
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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2004+ controllers use PIC C. It's close enough to ANSI C, so if you know that you'll be set.