2012 Beta Testers

[Mark McLeod]

Who's planning on applying for one of this 2013 season's Beta Test teams?

http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...esting-process

September 7 deadline to apply.

FRC 2013 Beta Test Forums: http://forums.usfirst.org/forumdisplay.php?f=1547

[Anupam Goli]

I did beta testing last year, and it was great. It was a great way to learn more about FRC libraries and a great way to give back to the community. However, it takes the full support of your FRC team to execute. I highly recommend teams if any calibre to sign up and participate, provided they have the resources and 6 Weeks worth of time.

[rachelholladay]

Beta Testing was awesome last year (http://team1912.com/beta_testing.html) and we hope to do it again this year!

[vinnie]

I had a lot of fun doing it last year and we're hoping to get accepted for Java again.

[yarden.saa]

We applied , we were also last year but because we moved to another lab/workshop we didn't have the time for it.

[Jimmy Nichols]

We applied for out first time this year. We are hoping to be selected.

[Mk.32]

We are applying as well.
Just wondering what are the chances of a team to be selected?

[Jon Stratis]

We just finished filling out the Survey... however, when we submit it, it seems to only refresh the page. Anyone else encountering this? We don't get any sort of confirmation that it went through!

Edit: Found our issue... apparently form errors don't really show up well on the site when viewed in Firefox!

[JamesTerm]

Thanks for posting reminder... we may do this again, still thinking about it. I do want to ask a question as there is a goal I'd like to pursue. Is there anyone at all that was able to use vision through the driver-station using c++ wind-river? If so please let me know as we would like to gather information on how to do this (e.g. for Beta Exhibition). Thanks.

[Greg McKaskle]

118 used C++ and a Beagle Bone. I don't really see an issue with doing it on the dashboard. What are your concerns?

Greg McKaskle

[JamesTerm]

Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle

118 used C++ and a Beagle Bone. I don't really see an issue with doing it on the dashboard. What are your concerns?

Greg McKaskle

When I was in beta last year... I was really excited about the idea of doing video processing through the driver station, and I really wanted to do that. Since this was a new presented feature, I couldn't find very much information on step by step what to do. Brad had some instructions but only for the Java platform. Jarod (341) has some good info, and source... but same scenario. I could not find the info I needed and eventually gave up. I still want to figure this out and hopefully can help others at for the task 5 exhibition who were stuck like I am now. So at this point... I just want to gather links docs info... etc on how to do this using c++ wind-river environment. Eventually have a step-by-step document on what to do... as well as example code on how to send commands from the driver station back to the robot... for things like target coordinates etc.

I've never heard of a beagle bone... thanks for info on team 118. I should hook up with them and see if they can help.

Hopefully enough teams have tested this new path... and from what I've heard it's been positive results with minimal latency.


P.S. If I can figure all of this out... it would be cool to overlay cross hairs on the video image that comes to the driver station... I'll save this research for next iteration.