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Originally Posted by Otaku
[offtopic]If you're the J. Ratcliff, programmer I happen to be thinking of:
My dad happens to still have his copies of 668 Attack Sub and SSN-21 Seawolf as backups on his PC, and I have MW2 in my small games collection (as well as all the other MW games, I freakin' love mechs)
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Yep, that's me. Sorry to the Easy C fans but I'm definitely thrilled with MPLAB and will be using it as my primary development platform. I'm really looking forward to having fun with this in years to come. However, in the short term, our team needs to get something up and running quickly and I have no external resources to draw upon other than this forum. I'll try to contact some people in the area who have past experience next week.
To carry the conversation here further, I might ask this. Soon enough I'm going to get the code working to control the motors and such yet I imagine that the programming for robots is a bit more sophisticated than simply 'move joystick send output to motor'? How sophisticated does the code get to deal simply with motion control on the robot? I saw reference to Kevin's code regarding 'encoders', which I can imagine has uses for motion control.
What kinds of techniques and algorithms are used purely to make the 'driving around' aspect of a robot more sophisticated?
Also, I do have a programming website. (
http://www.codesuppository.blogspot.com/)
It has no FRC code on it (yet) but I will be making all of my development open-source as I become more familiar with the process.
John