Why the sudden burst of code postings?

[Cel Skeggs]

Originally Posted by hardcopi

As always our code is available at: http://www.robotarians.org/information/programming/

Though we are working on creating a release thread about one portion of our Labview code. Our students last year created Roboscript. An autonomous scripting language that can be changed during the queuing line or even while your robot is being set up.

The post will go into more detail, but you run it like this:

drive(50%, 2s);

(this is an example that probably wouldn't work, but it is similiar to this). This would tell it to drive forward at 50% power for 2 seconds. The new version 2.02 allows the programmer to do things like "if sensor2 is active then do this else do that". It is similar to javascript in it's syntax.

You'll probably want to post a new thread - this thread isn't for posting your code.

[BBray_T1296]

Paraphrasing somebody's comment from a year or two ago,

If I sat at the side of the road with a flash drive handing out my code and CAD to any passerby who wanted it, does that count as publicly available?

[EmileH]

Originally Posted by BBray_T1296

Paraphrasing somebody's comment from a year or two ago,

If I sat at the side of the road with a flash drive handing out my code and CAD to any passerby who wanted it, does that count as publicly available?

Have you (or any other team) done this?

[BBray_T1296]

Originally Posted by EmileH

Have you (or any other team) done this?

Oh absolutely not. Purely hypothetical.

[Jacob Bendicksen]

Originally Posted by BBray_T1296

Oh absolutely not. Purely hypothetical.

I think that the intent behind the rule is that your team is making a good-faith effort to make the code publicly available to any FRC team that would want it. The idea (as I understand it) is that everyone is on a level playing field before Kickoff, so anyone that wants the code should be able to find it.

The tricky part is how easily they should be able to find it. Posting on CD is definitely sufficient, but I'm not sure where that line is between easy to find and hard to find.

[gblake]

You should attempt to tell the world about what you have done, including any especially good parts.

You obviously want your actions, and your bragging about the parts that are worth copying, to be notorious, in a good way.

The intent of the rule is obvious. Please, especially don't be weasels who satisfy the letter of it, but purposefully fail to satisfy its spirit.

Publish/announce early, often, widely, and proudly. When you are doing that correctly, you will know it without needing to ask for confirmation.

Blake

[Munchskull]

Just an FYI for the CAD side of that rule. You must make the CAD it's self available. Not just pictures of the CAD. I could easily see people not understanding that and just posting pictures of CAD models.

[techhelpbb]

Originally Posted by gblake

You should attempt to tell the world about what you have done, including any especially good parts.

You obviously want your actions, and your bragging about the parts that are worth copying, to be notorious, in a good way.

The intent of the rule is obvious. Please, especially don't be weasels who satisfy the letter of it, but purposefully fail to satisfy its spirit.

Publish/announce early, often, widely, and proudly. When you are doing that correctly, you will know it without needing to ask for confirmation.

Blake

Repeated because I completely agree:

It is really easy to mess around with this rule, please don't.
Especially with programming - learning programming is a task way bigger than 6 weeks and great examples on the cRIO/RoboRIO can be immensely helpful to all students.

Hopefully the community accepts the work without being too brutal as students shouldn't be discouraged.

[MrRoboSteve]

Originally Posted by BBray_T1296

If I sat at the side of the road with a flash drive handing out my code and CAD to any passerby who wanted it, does that count as publicly available?

If a tree falls in the woods, does the robot inspector hear it?