Changeing the Channel

[penguain]

Thanks...

Does this mean that you can't use more than 6 robotics on RF at a time

Barry Preston
STAG Robotics
Team #1997
Programming and Communications Officer

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by penguain

Does this mean that you can't use more than 6 robotics on RF at a time

That's correct: you can't have more than six simultaneous robots under radio control. However, FIRST can have up to 40, using an undocumented protocol. Unless you find a way to properly simulate the field control communication through the competition port connector, you won't be able to access the other 34 radio channels.

[usbcd36]

Technically, you could change team numbers to have more than six robots working at a time, correct?

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by usbcd36

Technically, you could change team numbers to have more than six robots working at a time, correct?

You'd need different team numbers unless you wanted one set of controls to operate two robots simultaneously, e.g., maybe for a push test.
You'd need separate radio channels too. Different team radio packets on the same channel can cause interference if the timing of the packet transmissions happen to overlap and garble the messages, making the robot response jerky.