Video tutorial on using Java

[BradAMiller]

We're in the process of creating some videos that describe how to write command-based robot program. It is based on the GearsBot demo program that's one of the examples in Netbeans.

The tutorial consists of 6 videos, each one is 5-10 minutes where we write a fairly complex robot program from scratch. You'll see everything including some views of the robot operating.

http://www.youtube.com/user/bradamiller

It demonstrates creating a new project, creating subsystems, adding commands and connecting the commands to buttons on a gamepad attached to the driver station. It ends with a fairly challenging autonomous program that, as you'll see, is very easily written.

If we can do this in 1 hour in the video, without omitting anything, you should easily be able to write pretty cool robot programs yourself in 5-1/2 weeks!

Even though this is java code, the same thing will work in C++ with some slight renaming of methods and C++ syntax rather than java. We'll try to get to some C++ videos too.

Enjoy
Brad

[BradAMiller]

The rest of the videos are now uploading and should be there in a few minutes.

Please let me know if you like these or find them helpful. Also if you would like to see any others.

Brad

[touchdownjesus4]

Haven't really used these directly with coding for our robot yet, but they gave me a great idea of the types of things I will need to do in order to get the robot running. As a first year team, we basically have no idea what we are doing, so these example videos are a huge help with giving us some direction.

I'll let you know if we need help on other specific topics, but these are great videos. Very informative and helpful. Thanks!

[evilcrouton]

Wow! these videos are very helpful. Keep out the good work. I am only confused on the PID aspect of the programming. How does PID work and how do you generate the constants? It would be really helpful to show how to do this.