This 95 page document is the year's upgrade of a manual posted on this form prior to last season. It has been substantially revised since the last post. The most significant addition for this year is an exposition of code that exploits interrupts for wheel counters and the time integration of a...
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 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...
This is the Techno-Gremlins code from 2004. Some features:
* Multi-autons, selected by OI.
* Multi-positioning pnuematics system.
* feedback loops.
* Arm safties
- Length limit switch and pot limit
- Hand current (Will reset if reversed)
* Gyro
* Quadrature
* Desensitized joystic...
This document contains the entire code for team #115's Global Positioning System, which uses four IR sensors mounted on servos in order to determine the robot's exact position and orientation, along with an error function which gives an estimate of the confidence in the given values. The walkthro...
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...
" 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, ...
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...
Why is it considered shameful to do the smart thing? As the saying goes, "I don't make the rules, I just live by them."
- Chris Hibner [more] 
