ausTIN CANs Programming Workshop

[Richard McClellan]

Team 2158, the ausTIN CANs hosted our first annual rookie programming workshop to teach our own new members, as well as Rookie Team 2468 from Westlake HS and Rookie Team 2583 from Westwood HS the basics of programming for FIRST. All three teams seemed to enjoy it and hopefully learned everything they need to be ready for the season.

We plan on using WPILib instead of the default code this year (assuming we don't find out about any drastic processor changes on Jan 5th of course) because of how easy it is to learn as well as teach. With three sets of Vex kits, the students split up into three groups with some students from each school on each team. Each group successfully programmed the robots for operator control with Tank drive and Arcade drive They were also able to use shaft encoders to travel a certain distance and line sensors to follow a line. The last project of the day, probably the most exciting of all was to hook up the IR sensor to the Vex robot so that we could drive the Vex robot with a TV remote control!

Pictures from the workshop: http://www.andersonrobotics.com/gall...g2_itemId=2598

Video of the IR Sensor on the Vex Robot! :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUx2w3J_jDk