2011 Logomotion Mini Bots

[DDSLoan96]

I dont know why everyone is stressing over how to program the minibot where in theory no programing is required. all the rules say is that the minibot has to climb without human interaction after deployment so all you would need is a simple electrical circuit with 2 limit switches to start and stop the bot

[PSHRobotics]

Originally Posted by PSHRobotics

How would you manage to have the minibot continue up the pole once it is disconnected from the main robot?

Also, LabView is pretty popular for FTC. The FTC section on CD has several teams that use it, including mine.
Now what I'm worried about is access to the libraries for FTC and FRC at the same time. My team has tried to install (last season, not this season) FRC's LabView directly over the version for FTC. The install always failed over three labtops. We had to completely remove everything related to FTC's LabView before installing FRC's LabView. Hopefully this will not be too big of a problem because an "FTC Toolkit" is released to use with LabView which should contain all the libraries for FTC. You can get the Toolkit off of USFirst.org's FTC Programming section in the "LabView Resources" link." Tomorrow, I will try installing the ToolKit over this FRC's LabView and then try to compile our most recent FTC code. I will post any problems or successes here.

I was unable to install the FTC toolkit on the FRC version of labview. I am unsure what steps my team will take for the future, but at the moment it seems like we will just have our team laptops for FRC and our personal laptops for FTC.

[Carter12s]

I have programed several NXT controllers with Labview in the past. The process is fairly easy and requires the NXT Toolkit available here http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/4435 . This toolkit provide easy and intuitive functionality within Labview for controlling motors, and reading sensors off of the NXT brick. While programming should not be required for the Minibot if any team feels it would help them, then this toolkit is a great starting point.

Good Luck!

[j.cole]

Just have a pull tab on the minibot that is connected to the main bot so that once the minibot is a certain distance from the mainbot the tabs disconnect and the motors start.