FRC971 Spartan Robotics 2016 Release Video

[Tom Bottiglieri]

This robot is so fun to watch. Great job!

[philso]

This is one of the most thoroughly engineered robots I have seen yet.

[Jus_McG-3193]

It appears to me every year that I see a new 971 robot it always impresses me tremendously. In particular there always seems to be a mechanism that blows me away. The pivoting of the shooter and arm assembly specifically this year, although I'm positive there's more to amaze.
Congratulations on your impressive win at Sacramento and best of luck to you all at SVR as well as Champs!

[rvgrossman]

Are you guys going to make the CAD available anytime soon? We're dying out here.

[markmcgary]

Originally Posted by rvgrossman

Are you guys going to make the CAD available anytime soon? We're dying out here.

And software would be nice as well. We are very inspired by your 'closed-loop driving' and would love to learn more.

[kevincrispie]

There are a number of resources in the works that the team plans on releasing. We need a bit of time to get everything together. However, we have released pictures from the 2016 build season. This includes competition photos, prototyping/fabrication photos, and close ups of the robot. Hopefully this can provide some guidance while the team works to get our software and mechanical documentation ready for public viewing.

The pictures can be viewed on the team Picasa page, in folders marked "2016".
https://picasaweb.google.com/117769834305511597729/

[Landonh12]

Originally Posted by kevincrispie

There are a number of resources in the works that the team plans on releasing. We need a bit of time to get everything together. However, we have released pictures from the 2016 build season. This includes competition photos, prototyping/fabrication photos, and close ups of the robot. Hopefully this can provide some guidance while the team works to get our software and mechanical documentation ready for public viewing.

The pictures can be viewed on the team Picasa page, in folders marked "2016".
https://picasaweb.google.com/117769834305511597729/

Is there a resource showing how you guys manage your code and how you deploy it to the robot? Also what editor do you use? I've been trying to learn how to code our robot in Java/C++ and don't like using Windows/Eclipse. IIRC I saw a page on your website saying you use Debian and SVN.

[AustinSchuh]

Originally Posted by Landonh12

Is there a resource showing how you guys manage your code and how you deploy it to the robot? Also what editor do you use? I've been trying to learn how to code our robot in Java/C++ and don't like using Windows/Eclipse. IIRC I saw a page on your website saying you use Debian and SVN.

There's a README in the top level folder of the code we'll release shortly that explains all that. We haven't met since CMP, so we haven't finished reviewing the last couple changes made at CMP yet to get them merged, so we can't release said code...

We use Bazel to build code, Debian Linux as our development platform, Git, and Gerrit. Bazel lets us cross compile easily and provides a hermetic environment so we are very certain that everyone on the team is building the same bits. Officially, we don't take a position in the editor wars, but most of the students use what the mentors use, which is VIM and bash.

[thatprogrammer]

It was awesome getting to see this robot in person and getting to talk to team members about it! Unfortunately you were all quite busy the few times I visited your pit, so I couldn't ask too many questions.

Originally Posted by AustinSchuh

Sorry, you'll have to wait until after the season to get an answer on that one. We are happy to share, but some things took a lot of prototyping and design to figure out and are too easy to reproduce.

Now that the season is over, would you be willing to provide some more details on your shooter?

[Landonh12]

Originally Posted by AustinSchuh

Officially, we don't take a position in the editor wars, but most of the students use what the mentors use, which is VIM and bash.

I've been using VIM and bash on my Mac. I like using it, but I usually go between that and making sure that Eclipse likes what I'm writing. Thanks for that bit, I'm looking forward to the full code release!

[Travis Schuh]

Our CAD is now available at http://frc971.org/cad

It takes the server a little over 10 seconds to start the download once you click the link so please be patient and don't hit the link twice.

[Sorocan534]

Originally Posted by Travis Schuh

Our CAD is now available at http://frc971.org/cad

It takes the server a little over 10 seconds to start the download once you click the link so please be patient and don't hit the link twice.

You guys are the best for providing this, can't wait to take a look at it!

[asid61]

Originally Posted by Travis Schuh

Our CAD is now available at http://frc971.org/cad

It takes the server a little over 10 seconds to start the download once you click the link so please be patient and don't hit the link twice.

We're having trouble importing the .iges file to both Solidworks and Inventor. Is there a step file or something similar we could use?

[Travis Schuh]

Originally Posted by asid61

We're having trouble importing the .iges file to both Solidworks and Inventor. Is there a step file or something similar we could use?

We had a mixup when putting the file on the server and got the wrong extension on it. The file was saved as step, you should be able to open it fine if you rename the extension to .step. We are working on getting the version on the server fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[asid61]

Originally Posted by Travis Schuh

We had a mixup when putting the file on the server and got the wrong extension on it. The file was saved as step, you should be able to open it fine if you rename the extension to .step. We are working on getting the version on the server fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience.

We just got it working, thanks.