Team Xbot 488 Beta Presentation (Redmond, WA)

[jojoguy10]

Originally Posted by jojoguy10

Yes, definitely a great learning experience!

If Larry is here and reading this, do you think you can post a link to your PowerPoint? That would be awesome!

I will think of some questions to ask soon.

-Joe

Update:
Here is a link to Larry's PowerPoint after he emailed it to me:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1z...ew?usp=sharing

[pensono]

Neat presentation, it outlines what's new and different really well. I didn't realize the roboRIO supports Java 8 now, which is awesome because Java 8 is awesome. Does the roboRIO read java bytecode? if so, we could be seeing some bots programmed in jvm languages like Scala and Clojure, which would be really cool.

Could you post the code you used for the perf testing? I'm curious how you tested it.

[Ben Wolsieffer]

Originally Posted by pensono

Does the roboRIO read java bytecode? if so, we could be seeing some bots programmed in jvm languages like Scala and Clojure, which would be really cool.

I think it would be fairly easy to run other JVM languages because the roboRIO uses the standard Oracle Java SE Embedded (you actually have to go to the Oracle site to download it).

[pensono]

Originally Posted by lopsided98

I think it would be fairly easy to run other JVM languages because the roboRIO uses the standard Oracle Java SE Embedded (you actually have to go to the Oracle site to download it).

Oh cool. Depending on weather the build tools are modifiable or not, this could be fairly easy. If they're using something like Gradle, then adding in another language to your project will be trivial. If they aren't using something like gradle, we'll just have to hope they've opensourced it. GitHub's a sponsor, maybe they'll post it there?

And if it's java, we can get minecraft to run on it. Anybody want to write some OpenGL drivers?

[Ben Wolsieffer]

Originally Posted by pensono

Oh cool. Depending on weather the build tools are modifiable or not, this could be fairly easy. If they're using something like Gradle, then adding in another language to your project will be trivial. If they aren't using something like gradle, we'll just have to hope they've opensourced it. GitHub's a sponsor, maybe they'll post it there?

And if it's java, we can get minecraft to run on it. Anybody want to write some OpenGL drivers?

The source for WPILib is available, but you have to have an account on the FRC TeamForge to access it. They might allow anonymous access soon. I believe the build scripts still use Ant, so you might be able to make it work.

I'm thinking about trying to write autonomous scripts in Javascript with Nashorn, but it might not be worth it because we don't have to reboot to upload code anymore.