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Re: Robotics Competiton!!!
« Reply #15 on: January 23, 2011, 01:56:30 am »
Darn I wish they had this when I went to hi school. That would've been fun.

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Re: Robotics Competiton!!!
« Reply #16 on: January 23, 2011, 02:20:15 am »
Wow that sounds really cool!  I know me and my fellow classmates in CompSci sometimes had inter-class competitions, but never anything outside, I would so love to do a competition like this!
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Re: Robotics Competiton!!!
« Reply #17 on: January 23, 2011, 08:30:46 am »
I'm participating in a contest too with my line-following robot... :)
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Re: Robotics Competiton!!!
« Reply #18 on: January 23, 2011, 08:56:16 am »
I'm writing a line following program for our robot.
How did you get yours to work? Fortunately this is only a small part of the competition though
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Re: Robotics Competiton!!!
« Reply #19 on: January 23, 2011, 10:46:50 am »
I'm sorry to say I couldn't have done more for my team's programming (team 589) this year.
But I am giving the rookies a crash course in programming, so if they can't program this year, they can next year :D

As far as I know, we're using both the sensors and the Axis camera for tracking - we're going to recycle the Axis camera tracking code from last year and have the sensors as a backup.

Any thoughts on the minibot? I hate how it has to have a Lego NXT Mindstorms controller if you want a microcontroller... why not an Arduino or something else
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Re: Robotics Competiton!!!
« Reply #20 on: January 23, 2011, 02:00:09 pm »
i was part of a FIRST team once...
it was a community team, because our school is the opposite of tech savvy, and i only did it one year because we had meh coaching. good luck to all you peoples, though!
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Re: Robotics Competiton!!!
« Reply #21 on: January 23, 2011, 06:39:51 pm »
Quote from: Ashbad on January 22, 2011, 09:04:41 pm
EDIT: Erik, our FRC team just built ours, and we discovered that simplest is the key ;D

Ours basically is just two wheels attached to motors (they form a right angle to ensure grip), a battery, and about 10 wires :)
Haha, sounds similar to ours. (well, probably most teams too!)
We've got it so it can go up the pole decently, enough for some bonus points. Getting it DOWN, though...
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Re: Robotics Competiton!!!
« Reply #22 on: January 23, 2011, 08:33:08 pm »
...isn't part of the competition  ;)
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Re: Robotics Competiton!!!
« Reply #23 on: January 23, 2011, 09:11:56 pm »
Quote from: Qwerty.55 on January 23, 2011, 08:33:08 pm
...isn't part of the competition  ;)

yeah, just gotta get it up, I don't think it even has to stay up as long as it doesn't fall off the poll. :)
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Re: Robotics Competiton!!!
« Reply #24 on: January 25, 2011, 07:28:02 pm »
So, my team just got a very skimmed down crash course on the electronics. We're a rookie team with no experience whatsoever, and almost no idea what to do. Any advice?

Edit: Hardware, electronics or programming. I think we're going to need all the help we can get.
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Re: Robotics Competiton!!!
« Reply #25 on: January 25, 2011, 08:06:16 pm »
I'd be happy to help with any mechanical stuff (especially pneumatics), although I can't physically make it because of the whole distance thing.
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Re: Robotics Competiton!!!
« Reply #26 on: January 26, 2011, 02:18:32 pm »
Cool, thanks. Do you mind if I wait until after my group meets again and has determined where we're going to start?
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Re: Robotics Competiton!!!
« Reply #27 on: January 29, 2011, 04:57:30 pm »
Quote from: Ashbad on January 23, 2011, 09:11:56 pm
Quote from: Qwerty.55 on January 23, 2011, 08:33:08 pm
...isn't part of the competition  ;)

yeah, just gotta get it up, I don't think it even has to stay up as long as it doesn't fall off the poll. :)

Well if you can't get it down, they just about tear it off the pole. We'd rather keep it intact as much as possible.
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Re: Robotics Competiton!!!
« Reply #28 on: February 01, 2011, 06:14:22 pm »
So, I've been assigned as programmer and my first job is to figure out how to get a motor to run, except i have no idea how to do that.
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Re: Robotics Competiton!!!
« Reply #29 on: February 01, 2011, 06:17:42 pm »
what are you guys programming in and what exactly are you programming? I might be able to help
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