*unofficial* FIRST IR module driver released

[mwtidd]

this may be a really foolish question,
but if you look at the page for the documentation on the sensor(http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles...20_121007.pdf), it looks like you have to physically push a button to program the ir chip, and thus the sensor will be learning a code prior to the match,
and thus there is no need for code to receive the ir pattern
as the code is stored in the chip

i believe that based on this what is going to happens is that each team will be given an ir pattern at the beginning of the match, and then will complete a goal using that code

[JBotAlan]

Originally Posted by lineskier

this may be a really foolish question,
but if you look at the page for the documentation on the sensor(http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles...20_121007.pdf), it looks like you have to physically push a button to program the ir chip, and thus the sensor will be learning a code prior to the match,
and thus there is no need for code to receive the ir pattern
as the code is stored in the chip

i believe that based on this what is going to happens is that each team will be given an ir pattern at the beginning of the match, and then will complete a goal using that code

The code is stored in the chip onboard the IR sensor, but what are the outputs connected to? For the purposes of this code, I assumed we are connecting the outputs to the digital inputs of the robot. This code doesn't receive the actual pattern of pulses from the remote, but it can tell which pre-learned command has been received.

At this point, this code has been written on the assumptions that a) FIRST is not changing the controller this year, and b) we actually are using this sensor on the robot. Both conditions are guesses, so this piece of software may be totally useless for the 08 season. We'll see.

Thanks for the style hints, Tom. If you have any more, I'd love to hear them. After writing these files, it seems they are kind of...messy. But I tried my best with the limited knowledge I have, and that's all I can hope to do.

JBot