New FIRST team in need of materials/donations/loans

[Bob Steele]

Tom, That's a great idea... We can do that... Is there anyway to take the kit joysticks and adapt them for use with the VEX controller? Has anyone done that? I really want my drive team to be using what they will use in the spring.. but this method will definitely give us something to build full scale and start working on autonomous...

I am really looking for a camera to start working the bugs out... but they are not available from FIRST... any suggestions what we could substitute?

thanks so much for your help!!! If we could borrow 2-4 883 victors from you guys that would really help!!!

I can make the cables...

B

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

Bob,
You probably already know, but just in case you dont... The control system we use for FRC (www.ifirobotics.com) controls the DC motors with custom made speed controllers which take input from a PWM signal provided by the Robot controller. Vex and FRC control systems operate on the same standards, so it is possible to get some hand-me-down Victor speed controllers, make a male-to-male 3 pin header cable for the pwm signal, and hook up the victors to the motor output on the vex controller. This way you can use the Vex controller which you already have to do some full scale fall prototyping.

I know my high school team (195) has a bunch of Victor 883s hanging around. We might be able to get a few of those out to you.

[Bob Steele]

Hello again,
We are well on the way to having some kind of working drive system to work on this fall. Thanks to team 1039, and team 25
We are still looking for a couple of kit transmissions... Does anyone have 2 that we could borrow for the fall?
or buy or something?

thanks
R

thanks to everyone that asked to help
we appreciate it