This paper documents Team Ford FIRST's stand-alone IR beacon and IR sniffer. It was designed to free up the Edubot from field beacon duty, it operates from almost any supply ("wall-wart" or 12 volt battery), generates either TYPE 0 or TYPE 1 signals, or if paired with another identical ...
This paper is a five stage layout of how my team plans on doing these years build and the different sub teams involved this may be helpful to some rookie teams. We used it to help introduce new members to the build process.
This is our most current team handbook. After 3 versions we finally have one we are happy with. There are many other documents to ga along with this but I have not included them. The final version has team pictures along the top. They could not be included in this version due to file size. If y...
C Programming Guide (34 pages)
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Uses free IDE/Compiler so students can learn and practice the basics of C programming at home or school. Allows students to understand how to read and make meaningful changes in the Robot default ...
This paper is a breakdown of what happens at FIRST competitions along with tips. Includes a general schedule and explanation of each major part of the three days of competition.
The FIRST Operator Interface includes one display variable designated as User_Mode_byte. The default program sets User_Mode_byte = backup_voltage*10 to
display the backup voltage variable. The display variable can be used to display
multiple user software variables by writing different...
On the advice of a mentor on my team, due my invisibilty on paper. i am going to turn in my colledge application to UCF in person. so i can talk about myself, my experience in robotics, my abilties, and my struggle with my disabilty (dislexia). and all arround sell myself to get in. along with my ap...
Here are the designs for Team 900's 2004 Single-Speed Transmission. It uses both the CIM and Drill motors. Sorry for the delay, but here they are. Let me know if you have any questions.
This document provides both a tutorial, as well as information on more advanced programming techniques that are useful for learning C programming for your robot. It is a work in progress.
The tutorial uses the Extensible Interactive C (EiC) interpreter to allow students to try out C program constr...
Well, the other night a fellow CDer asked for some help in making a scoring setup for FLL. This is what I came up with, good for 15 matches (with potential for more, if you work with it). It assumes you know how to navigate between sheets and sort columns.
With the advent of a new season and the influx of new programmers-to-be I decided to do a 1 or 2 page write-up on just how a programmer new to FIRST can get started. I wrote this up to bootstrap rookie team programmers. Sort of a how does one get started when they know absolutely nothing about where...
Since Alex469 posted his updated map of the number of teams in each state, I figured the next logical step was to find the distribution over the population of each state.
As the deadline for registration approaches, I'll try to remember to update this.
Provides integer sine, cosine and arctangent trigonometric functions, using the CORDIC algorithm, accurate to +- 1/16777216. Also contains a floating-point CORDIC square root function, accurate to +- 1/16777216, as well as a few other standard math functions.
This is a powerpoint I created for my speech class. Basically, since I had a laptop, I could hold up the screen with the presentation running and let the speakers get a really big timer (with the pretty colors that turned yellow as they approached this particular speech's two-minute target).
What have we learned? Cannons are awesome :rolleyes: - DominickC [more] 
