What is a Cypress?

[eedo369]

Hello everyone,

I know this may sound a bit too late but I wanted to ask what exactly is the Cypress, what can I do with it and how does it work?

[hipsterjr]

Well here in the south, a cypress is a tree that grows in the swamp. But I doubt that is what you mean.

[The Lucas]

It is an electronic board that came in your KOP, also called a PSoC. You can connect it to the USB port of your Classmate and configure what I/O options you want. Then then you can program your cRIO to can read analog and digital I/O from switches etc, connected to the Cypress

[Mike Betts]

You can read more about it here.

[vhcook]

There is a nice enclosure for the board which you can get here, if you would like a protective box and nice headers to wire to.

[robself705]

You can do cool things like put switches on it to tell the robot which zone it is starting in so it can use the right autonomous code......that is if there is time to program different autonomous

[apalrd]

Originally Posted by robself705

You can do cool things like put switches on it to tell the robot which zone it is starting in so it can use the right autonomous code......that is if there is time to program different autonomous

You can do more than that - You can build a whole custom control box for your operator (although I recommend against using it for the driver, simply because the driver needs two joysticks or a gamepad to drive)

[kevin.li.rit]

Originally Posted by apalrd

You can do more than that - You can build a whole custom control box for your operator (although I recommend against using it for the driver, simply because the driver needs two joysticks or a gamepad to drive)

You can have joysticks on the PSoC since its got ADC capability. You just have to use joysticks similar to the ones included in the kit 2008 and earlier.

[eedo369]

Thanks for all the info!

Can you tell me how to program it and and how to use Labview to program the CRIO to read it?

[apalrd]

To program the PSoC: Plug it in to USB (no battery needed) and open PSoC programmer. Find the file called FRC_IO_v2.hex, located in Shared Documents on the Classmate. Upload the image.

On the other end - Go to WPI Robotics Library => Driver Station => Extended IO for the extended IO. This includes VI's to read analog channels, digital channels, and write digital outputs, plus much more.

[eedo369]

Originally Posted by apalrd

To program the PSoC: Plug it in to USB (no battery needed) and open PSoC programmer. Find the file called FRC_IO_v2.hex, located in Shared Documents on the Classmate. Upload the image.

On the other end - Go to WPI Robotics Library => Driver Station => Extended IO for the extended IO. This includes VI's to read analog channels, digital channels, and write digital outputs, plus much more.

O.K. Let's say that I want to use the Button on the Cypress to determine which autonomous I want to use right before the match starts.
How do I do that?

The problam is, I don't know how to "connect" what I see in Labview to what I see on the board. And our electrician hasn't got a clue on how to connect DIOs and PWMs etc to it.