You know you are a true tech geek when you end up on top of the Sears tower, and the only pictures you post are the ones of the radio antennae. ;) - Tom Line [more]
FRC Team 418 created a Robot-In-A-Box in order to provide a platform that could be used to (1)train new students in programming, (2) mentor other FRC teams, (3) make their build season more efficient, and (4) to solve code problems when the robot was unavailable.
A paper a few of us wrote for an IEEE Robotics Conference (IEEE TePARA '09 - November 9-10, 2009 - Woburn, MA). Many thanks to those that helped us with the work.
I made this tutorial to show how to set up MPLAB so you can program your VEX robots using it. All of the materials needed are available for free (all can be maintained legally too).
This is a formatted version (Standard spoken word) of the Homework speech by Dean Kamen. The copy was reformatted from the NASA provided transcript of the broadcast.
You know you are a true tech geek when you end up on top of the Sears tower, and the only pictures you post are the ones of the radio antennae. ;) - Tom Line [more] 
