I personally think that everybody on the team is important. No matter what, every single student, mentor, teacher put their effort all year long to get the team going. So in my opinion, Credit goes to everyone. - Arefin Bari [more]
Here is a dashboard Control for the people still using visual basic 6 because they arnt on XP. It parses the WHOLE packet and is very fast. Also included is the source and an example app.
On our 2004 robot we utilize, not one, but two gyros. Our horizontally mounted gyro is employed to compute our robot’s heading, both relative and absolute, while our vertically mounted gyro is used to detect x-axis tilt.
Code samples will be provided throughout this paper to explain our programm...
This is the first half of Team 810's unique C++/Flash MX Dashboard. This C++ backend reads in data from the serial port and saves it to a data file. The Flash MX frontend then reads that data file and updates itself.
This is a VC++.net solution, I'm not very familiar with VS.net, but I believ...
This is a 2004 dashboard application tailored to our robot. It includes a map of the field that displays the position and orientation of the robot. The robot's coordinates and heading come directly from the robot so there is no translation done in the dashboard program. The positioning information ...
This is a VB project with a single form that is set up to receive and parse data from the dashboard port on the OI. All you need to do is add controls to display the data you want to see and edit the contents of ShowDataFrame1(), ShowDataFrame2(), and ShowDataFrame3() to update your GUI elements. Th...
" While initiating tests with the infrared, we realized that a 40 kHz
generator was needed to be adapted into the infrared emitters. But thinking about the adaption of this disposition on the field of tests, we felt it was necessary to develop a similar generator, ...
The joysticks provided by FIRST proportionalize poor handling, so our students came up with a solution. This whitepaper explains the advantages of converting the linear curve of the joystick into an exponential one, and how it can be done.
This program allows you to setup the MCC18 compiler under Linux, write programs to the First Robot Controller or EDURC, and read input sent back to the computer. Now, no one is forced to use Windows solely for programming the robot controller.
Version 0.4, it should work. I've tested it with the...
The intent of this document is to demystify in reasonable detail how digital input interrupts work with enough explanations that a programmer can confidently implement interrupt service routines and use interrupts in their robots.
An example low pass filter for the PWM outputs. Can be used for making the joystick less sensitive, as well as for general protection of the robot drive train motors.
Attached is a File pictorial for the new Joystick.
The large center button sends different OHM values for its 5 potential positions, and it is connected to the same pin numbers as the P1_wheel was last year.
This is in answer to my question:
1) Is there any electrical information on the p...
Since a lot of people have been having difficulties with their IR sensors over on the Programming and Electrical boards, I decided to write this flowchart that helps teams find out whats wrong with their IR systems. If you're having troubles getting your IR to work with the default IR code, take a...
See the description and instructions for the dll I uploaded last year. The only difference is that this year, it's only partially tested, but since I've received some queries, I've posted it here. There shouldn't be any major problems, but if you find any, PM me and I'll fix them.
This "Introduction to Programming Guide" brings users not familiar with C and teaches them how to work with the robot. This manual also teaches the user how the Robot Controller works with inputs and outputs to allow the robot to function. The manual goes through an Introduction and 4 lessons. The 4...
(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...
Application provides bi-directional interface to control the 2004 EDU robot controller from a PC. GUI has 4 joysticks. Sends 8 control bytes and recieves 14 feedback bytes. Setup package includes .hex file with mods needed to work with this application as well as the source "user_routines.c&quo...
Our Northrop Robotics' Engineer and his fellow mentors are teaching this course each Sunday, open to FIRST teams.
"This document is written to accompany a course of instruction in robotics fundamentals for high school students participating in a competitive robotics team. Our intent in prepa...
Written in a couple of hours using LabView 6.1, this shows what can be done very quickly with LabView from National Instruments (www.ni.com). It would take quite a bit longer in VB or VC++, plus this will also run under Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris (Sun).
I personally think that everybody on the team is important. No matter what, every single student, mentor, teacher put their effort all year long to get the team going. So in my opinion, Credit goes to everyone. - Arefin Bari [more] 
