Autonomy: How Did You Guys Do It?

[Bethie42]

Originally Posted by RoBoTiCxLiNk

The keys are very small on the DS, but you get used to it after a while. its pretty handy, using it for all the programming and keeping comms to the driver station exe, then not switching laptops for regional.

we do have a small bit of carpet, but its all curled and needs weight at each end, and its only slightly larger than the robot, so its not of much use. even to sit or lie down on, its very hard to use. i usually just sit on the floor, cross legged with MY laptop that i used to program this year (an actual laptop, not DS) on my lap, right next to the chassis on a cart. and i think maybe ill suggest a mac to the scouting leader or whatever hes called, but pretty much everyone on the team is a pc.

and that sucks about your original programming laptop. we have this really old laptop in our closet with no wifi, and probably about 5 MB of RAM that i was thinking of using to program one time, till i picked it up... very heavy for such a bad laptop...

Wow, I thought it was only our team that has stacks of old decrepit laptops stashed in the closet.....along with old control boards and expired software...

At one point this season I was actually writing code on my Mac...couldn't compile because of not having WPI lib stuff, but still...and I have a fond hope of someday compiling C++ for FRC on a mac, in Xcode or Code::Blocks. I tried to do that earlier this season.....after linking up most of the dozens and dozens of WPI library header files, I gave up, but I was CLOSE! Or at least I like to think so!


On another note, has anyone here worked on an autonomous mode that scores more than one tube?