Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

[stuart2054]

The 2015 Season and Recycle Rush have caused our team to get "Out of our Comfort Zone" and really learn some new (to us) equipment that many teams have used for years. We were not afraid to try them because we knew there would be a lot of good information available on CD and other sources and we were correct so I wanted to start this thread to thank some of the teams and people whose knowledge we were able to use because they Graciously posted their knowledge in white papers for all teams to use. I am betting we are not the only team that had this type of experience so post yours.

New Items for 2015

Mecanum Wheels & Gyro

I put these two items together because you really need the gyro to get the most out of the mecanum wheels. We implemented a two joystick system with one stick field centric (needs gyro) and one that is robot centric. We could never have done this without information provided by two teams, 1361 Nightmare Robotics and the other was team 353 Pobots paper on the gyro and labview programming. THANKS Guys!!!

We are not using vision this year but it was crucial to us in 2012 and we were clueless until we read some of the advice on implementing vision from NI's Greg McKaskle. Thank You Greg. I didn't ask the questions but I found your replies to other users by searching CD with my questions.

If you have used some ones papers etc... to get a leg up give them a shout out.