Quote:
Our team is in the process of doing this (over wireless) for our practice/demo bot(s), and I'm figuring that MANY teams will find this useful as well. It's great being able to operate multiple bots without having to spend big $$'s on another cRIO. And a great way to have the kids learn comm protocols, etc. Plus there are loads and loads of competition-legal ways to use CAN-capable devices. Great having CAN available!
By the way, we're planning to upload our "2CAN PC driver" code to firstforge eventually so other teams can benefit as well. Before that though we want to get the driver code working without having to revert the Jags back to the default (non-FRC) firmware - since the "trusted heartbeat" required by the FRC Jag firmware isn't documented we have some further reverse-engineering to do and haven't been able to get time on the cRIO until recently
- Ron
Team #2607 controls mentor
|
I would really like to see this done!
The ability to have multiple pseudo-swarm bots from one controller could be used for many things.
- Mini exhibition like competitions for prerookies, give them a chance to drive a robot, and see somewhat how it works
- Swarm robots, autonomous modules collaborating to provide information / complete a task leveraging the comp power of the cRio