[FTC]: HiTechnic Magnetic Sensor

[MonikkaM]

Hello Again!

Back trying to help out my teen with her robot.

Are there some additional programming resources showing the use of the magnetic sensor with RobotC?

Essentially, she downloaded the drivers from Xander's website, installed them in RobotC and tried running the sample codes. She's confused and since my background is in Material Science (& Dad is a physicist); programming is not our thing.

After about 5 hours of struggling through it on her own and searching high & low online, she still is saying that she's not clear on a) how the sensor is addressed by the program, b) how to use whatever data is being gathered by the sensor, c) whether or not she installed it properly and d) can/how does she hook up a light bulb to tell her if the ball is magnetic or not?

The rest of her team took the holiday off and were supposed to come over to our house (her coach let her bring the robot & parts home since he was not going to be at school) and only one teammate showed up (and he is more involved in the mechanical). I'm so proud of her for stepping up to the plate and trying to do 110% (their first regional is on 12/4) but I think she might have bitten off more than she can chew!