Semantic robotics is a technology being developed by team 1678 in order to develop more reliable and effective control systems. This paper serves as a guide to the basic principals of semantic robotics.
This white paper contains information about building and programming a Playstation 2 controller adapter to control your robot! This adapter was developed by Team 862, Lightning Robotics, and works perfectly with any off-the-shelf PS2 controller. The advantage of this model is that no modifications n...
This is an old white paper originally posted by Doogan that I edited for the new IFI system. It is a list of all OI ports, pins, and what each one does (for the default code), and the variable alias for each. It also has 2 other sheets that list the RC outputs and inputs. Everything has an open c...
Due to some recent confusion on how to change the channels on the OI for practice situations, I put together this quick whitepaper that hopefully explains everything.
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...
This is a four page Microsoft Word white paper that describes how to create a power supply that allows you to have a portable Innovation FIRST Operator Interface. This is a very simple way to create a cheap power supply for under $15.
(Copied from a thread I created to here, so it will be easier to find in the future. Also updated the code to correct a typo in the comments that described the available variables in user_routines.c.)
I'm hoping this may be of use to some teams out there who'd like to be able to control their ne...
It's not the name "FIRST" that is important but the ideas that go into and come out of it in the long run. - Levin571 [more] 
