The Age before AndyMark

[JamesCH95]

Originally Posted by JDNovak

Actually, the Basic Stamp did/does have trig functions of sorts. In 1999 we built our first three wheeled robot with only the rear wheel steered. Our software group attacked the problem of controlling the speeds of the front wheels by calculating the circumference of each wheels path and setting it's speed relative to the distance to travel. It took weeks to solve all the overflow issues but the result was full of trig and mathematically correct.

I was not intimately involved in the programming that year (or any year for that matter ) all I know is that the work-around for the same overflow issues we had was a to compute the angles in micro-radians and use approximate polynomial expansions for trig functions... and a few other sleazy little work arounds