VEX programming

[foobert]

Originally Posted by burtonrs

I now need to spend another $50 to support user functions. I'm starting to think this is a never ending expenditure to get a basic programmable robot. Anyone else think this?

uh, yeah. i got the prototype programmer last summer, so i don't even have easyc 1.1. got mcc18 instead. what ifi told me was that if i want easyc i should buy a second programmer.

oops, i'm about to go off topic. seems to me that for an educational system there is an awful lot here that is off limits. the programming interface is intentionally obfuscated. if you ask ifi for information about the data coming from the radio, they tell you that that's proprietary information, although it looks pretty much like a plain vanilla ppm stream to me. there is no information on the interface between the master and user microcontrollers in the controller and the sources for the libraries that handle it are not available.

that said, ifi are, indeed, very helpful in areas in which they are willing to be helpful.

oh, well, i guess this is an education of sorts, after all.