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Unread 05-01-2007, 17:14
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Re: Programming Projects

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Originally Posted by b_mallerd View Post
Hey all,

The season is about to start and the amount of free time left can be counted in hours. So before we all buckle down and curse at various components (CMU cam being the bane of many teams) I would like to ask how what programming projects you have done to just improve your overall coding skills.

Perhaps mention your first 'real' application, written for a specific purpose rather than just a cookie cutter projects.

I'm asking because I've gotten bored of these projects in the text books and want to try writing a real app. Unfortunately I have no ideas so please share your experiences!
I am working on this:

It is going to be use full duplex communication on the RC's Program port. The computer is supposed to have full control of the robot, including the hardware(but we will see how far this goes)


The dashboard is quite limiting in that you have reprogram your robot if you want to display different values. This should in theory allow you access any previously programed( and not removed) variables on the fly. The RC doesn't flood the program with all the stuff at the same time(wasting its processor time too). Rather when you change something in any column the Application send the RC which new variables to send to the App.

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