It is impossible to be grumpy about anything when eating biscotti made by one's beautiful wife, drinking tea sweetened by one's own honey, warmed by a wood stove, and with a dog asleep on one's foot. Simply impossible. - pfreivald [more]
This a basic PHP tutorial that I wrote up.
It might be too late for this season, but hopefully it will be useful for your future.
I have included the following in this tutorial:
Basic PHP
Printing text
Comments
Variables
Constants
Mathematical Operations
Conditionals
For statements
Swit...
The default user program provided by FIRST produces a motor speed command that is directly proportional to the joystick input. This typically results in an undesirable motor speed characteristic or transfer function. A very simple table look-up method exists to fix this problem that may be unfamilia...
This is a nifty little .NET 2003 program that logs people in and out like one of those punch clocks you see in old movies (but a bit cooler if i say so myself). It can be used for deciding who goes to certain competitions and the like. There's no readme, but it's pretty easy to figure out. All you...
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.
This is the program Team SPAM is using to plot waypoints for autonomous mode this year. I hope other teams find it useful and interesting. This program shows the picture of the field and the user can generate points by clicking on its position on the picture. Look at the readme for more details.
This is a very introductory HTML tutorial I wrote up for the season.
It includes:
HTML Structure
Headings
Paragraphs
Spacing/New Lines
Horizontal Rules
Comments
Font Color/Face/Size
Bold/Italic/Underline/Striking
Links
Images
Centering
Special Characters
Lists
Tables
Here's a very simple way to use some PVC pipe sections and a couple of 2-liter pop bottles to make a beam scale to weight your robot. As the instructions state:
a) This is not an EXACT measurement
b) Be careful in attaching the beam scale to the ceiling beams of your robot lab
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This sheet will enable you to view motor curves for given specs. It also includes conversions for stall torque, as well as correction for spec voltage (original->12V). I have found it quite useful and hope that you all will as well.
*NOTE: This sheet assumes a linear relationship between Tor...
I have noticed at least a couple of threads lately on how to make sure your arm structure can take it. This is a spreadsheet I developed for my own use that provides a quick estimate of what options are readily available.
If somebody wants to continue expanding the data base I won't object, but...
The Taigene motor is made by Taigene and Taigene donated them to the FIRST kit, but, the motor is USED in a Power Sliding Door application by Delphi (for Ford or GM or one of our other PSD customers, I don't know which).
In any case, we (Delphi) created the spec. But... ...we were not really co...
This is a document concerning robot steering. It explains the numerous steering modes for Team 79’s robot, Captain Krunch 6. This robot uses a crab-drive design.
We developed these steering modes in 2003 and 2004.
This is a tool I use to get my chain adjuster travels right and to give my "gut" a chance to "see" the chain path before I commit to it in metal (I like to judge the amount of chain wrap around a sprocket visually).
It is not a perfect tool. It does not have any way to en...
This was posted on a technical discussion thread a while ago, but I don't know how many people saw it. We had busted a 120A Bussman circuit breaker and wanted to know both how it broke and how it worked. this is our results
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.
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 ...
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...
It is impossible to be grumpy about anything when eating biscotti made by one's beautiful wife, drinking tea sweetened by one's own honey, warmed by a wood stove, and with a dog asleep on one's foot. Simply impossible. - pfreivald [more] 
