I’d like to get some insight on what some teams do in terms of programming in the off season.
What I’d like to do with my team
What are some things you guys in the Chief Delphi community do with the programming students in the off season?
We compete in Zero Robotics SPHERES: http://www.zerorobotics.org/web/zero-robotics/home-public
The language is c++, registration just opened yesterday.
Besides that, 1912 has worked on an off-season t-shirt cannon robot and training younger students. We have also been a beta test team for four years. This year we are also working on vision tracking over the summer and for the Red Stick Rumble offseason event.
We have been interested in how to become a Beta testing team. We have had to make multiple changes to the WPI Lib on our own to help combat some flaws we have run into. We would love an importunity to bite these issues in the butt and contribute back to the community.
We’ll work on more custom robot-D/S comms. We’ll work on more overlays using Kinect Data. We’ll integrate in the h.264 encoding on the Pandaboard for better streaming. We’ll work on a pneumatics estimation system to monitor pneumatic pressure based upon which cylinders have fired. We’ll also work on a better productionization of the current data logging – I’m not great a windows batch scripting (if only the D/S could be linux…).
I may also try to sneak in a button board case study, that shows various ways to program various OMI types (linear pots, rotary pots, etc).