Team 4488 Shockwave - 2016 Code

[david cobbley]

Team 4488 is proud to share our 2016 source code for our robot - Eclipse!

This was the first year our team attempted to write our robot code in Java: https://github.com/shockwave4488/FRC-2016-Java
And here is our camera code - Written in C#: https://github.com/shockwave4488/FRC-2016-Camera

Please feel free to ask questions!

[gerthworm]

Nice! Looks like you have a pressure sensor in your code, and it's being used to adjust the RPM of the shooter? Assuming so, what kind of sensor did you use, and how useful was it?

[jojoguy10]

I'm curious why you decided to use C# for your camera code. Why not C++ or Python? Did you create a WinForm with Visual Studio or something similar?

[Nbot]

Originally Posted by gerthworm

Nice! Looks like you have a pressure sensor in your code, and it's being used to adjust the RPM of the shooter? Assuming so, what kind of sensor did you use, and how useful was it?

We used this https://www.adafruit.com/products/1075 pressure sensor from Adafruit. The idea was to use it to detect how stiff the ball was and adjust shooter RPM accordingly. However, we were never able to get the sensor to give us consistent enough values to be useful so that functionality was never used in competition.

[mwmac]

Originally Posted by Nbot

We used this https://www.adafruit.com/products/1075 pressure sensor from Adafruit. The idea was to use it to detect how stiff the ball was and adjust shooter RPM accordingly. However, we were never able to get the sensor to give us consistent enough values to be useful so that functionality was never used in competition.

We used a similar but smaller sensor to characterize balls as they entered the picker mouth of our offseason robot, "Rotator". We were able to characterize balls into 3 categories and assign differing shooter wheel speeds accordingly.