Team 869's Custom Controller

[Rapt0r9]

Well, I suppose I'll pass this on to our engineers and mentors and see what they think we should do. I know the rules about programming and not doing it after build season, but the OI is new to me.

Thanks for the clarification.

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by Rapt0r9

Well, I suppose I'll pass this on to our engineers and mentors and see what they think we should do. I know the rules about programming and not doing it after competition, but the OI is new to me.

Ouch. This hurts. I would imagine that since you didn't ship your console and it is now illegal for you to bring it to competition you'll have to build a new one from scratch on Thursday at your first regional. Better ask some questions on the Q&A or contact FIRST and see what they say. Maybe they'll be lenient, but this rule is pretty clearly stated.

It really pays to read the manual cover-to-cover...

[Rapt0r9]

Well if we do have to rebuild, we can just use joysticks and a random piece of lexan for the board. It will look aboslutely hideous, but at least we can still compete.

[rohit]

nice: this is ours

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img...6f696f5e_m.jpg

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Rohit,
I know that this will not be a problem during competition since you will be using an IFI radio for the OI but the radios actually have an internal antenna that runs down the left side of the modem in your picture. Mounting this against a metal panel usually has a detrimiental affect on RF. the same goes for the RC side as well.

[rohit]

hmm.. ok. I have no clue what that means but ill show your post to the electrical person

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by rohit

hmm.. ok. I have no clue what that means but ill show your post to the electrical person

What he means is that you have your OI radio modem mounted to what appears to be a metal plate. This metal plate is in between the OI modem and the robot, and will interfere with the communication. What he's suggesting is that you mount the modem so that it's above the metal or otherwise unattached to it. The silver antenna on the outside of the modem isn't the only one - there's also one inside the black case which is why just having the external antenna above the metal plate isn't good enough.