2011 C++ Beta Testers?

[taichichuan]

Originally Posted by jhersh

What improvements are you hoping for? We have had no feedback on the implementation, and as such have not done anything to change it.

-Joe

HI Joe,

I'm just trying to see what of the full range of Hi-Technic sensors will be supported. We had some problems with the stability of the 2010 Gyro/Compass and we're looking to see how much of the FTC kit can be used this year.

Some of the newer Hi-Technic sensors like the magnetometer and the EOPD look really interesting if we can make them work with WPILib with a minimum of hassle. We also had a few problems with the I2C support in last year's WPILib, so we were looking to see if anything had changed.

TIA,

Mike

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by taichichuan

I'm just trying to see what of the full range of Hi-Technic sensors will be supported. We had some problems with the stability of the 2010 Gyro/Compass and we're looking to see how much of the FTC kit can be used this year.

The Compass is the only one in the C++ library at the moment. I think there is a LabVIEW example for the Accelerometer that could be ported to C++. No Gyro, though. Don't have one.

Originally Posted by taichichuan

Some of the newer Hi-Technic sensors like the magnetometer and the EOPD look really interesting if we can make them work with WPILib with a minimum of hassle. We also had a few problems with the I2C support in last year's WPILib, so we were looking to see if anything had changed.

All of the HiTechnic sensors should be pretty trivial to support... I just don't have any of them and no-one else has contributed drivers or hardware so far. Perhaps I'll dig around and try to find some of these devices in various NXT stashes that others have.

-Joe

[ptan]

Originally Posted by jhersh

The Compass is the only one in the C++ library at the moment. I think there is a LabVIEW example for the Accelerometer that could be ported to C++. No Gyro, though. Don't have one.



All of the HiTechnic sensors should be pretty trivial to support... I just don't have any of them and no-one else has contributed drivers or hardware so far. Perhaps I'll dig around and try to find some of these devices in various NXT stashes that others have.

-Joe

If you could support the HiTechnic (FTC) Gyro, that would be great! I have a few of them lying around that my FRC team could use.

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by ptan

If you could support the HiTechnic (FTC) Gyro, that would be great! I have a few of them lying around that my FRC team could use.

Not possible, I'm afraid... the Gyro from HiTechnic is an analog sensor. The digital sidecar (as it's name suggests) is for digital only... You could use the HiTechnic Gyro if you cut open an NXT sensor cable and wire it up to the Analog Breakout.

I'd be surprised if you got better performance from it than you do from the kit gyro, but I haven't tested it.

-Joe