PTC welcomes ALL FRC and FTC teams to a weekly webinar called: “ROBO-TALK” where we will have experts available online to answer your questions during the FRC build season.
ROBO-TALK will run every **Thursday night from 7:00 PM- 9:00 PM EST **beginning January 12 through World Championship where we will be broadcasting live from St. Louis.
Topics such as improving program management of your team, quick conceptual design tips, documentation and calculation tips, etc. will be covered as well as guest appearances of teams, mentors, and special guests.
For the full ROBO-TALK schedule and registration click here: http://bit.ly/ypMhAz
Please join us tonight for this week’s session of ROBO-TALK! If you have not registered yet, please visit http://bit.ly/ypMhAz to get signed up. All you need is a pc and microphone to connect to the web session.
We’ll have a special guest speaker with us tonight, Greg McKaskle from NI to review the targeting system, lighting controls and data acquisition (image refinement). Greg will show you quick and easy ways to use the tools in NI to find the backboards, find the distance to the backboards and get the information you need to make an accurate “shot”.
We’ll also have the regular crew available to answer any questions you have on Mathcad, Windchill and Creo (Pro/E) along with robot design, mechanics and ideas.
Don’t miss this week’s ROBO-TALK!
Our February 2nd live webinar will cover:
- Basic mechanism design and analysis using Creo Elements/Pro
- Mathcad worksheets specific to targeting on the ReboundRumble field
- A look at how to write custom Kinect joystick code to allow for better or different driver actions. As well as, basic Kinect setup and trouble-shooting.
Please register here: http://bit.ly/ypMhAz
Here are the topics for tonight’s ROBO-TALK…
We will have** Greg McKaskle from National Instruments **join us on ROBO-TALK. He will be reviewing options for distributed processing and communication between robot and dashboard/driver station computer.
We will also have **Todd Kraft **on to demonstrate how to place a robot on the field model and move it onto the moving ramps.
If would like to have any questions answered during the webinar, please submit them in the registration form.
ROBO-TALK: Thursday, February 9
7:00 PM- 9:00 PM
Register Here: www.ptc.com/go/firstrobotalk