Summer 2009 Mentor Workshop
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== Week Six - 21 July == | == Week Six - 21 July == | ||
| - | + | Introduction to RobotC (for IFI). (The interface looks almost the same for RobotC for Mindstorms.) | |
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| + | Class started making sure that everyone had RobotC installed and the USB-to-Serial adapter working. | ||
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| + | Then we opened a sample program for dual-joystick control of the robot. We mapped the physical configuration of the robot to commands in RobotC for simple remote control. We then downloaded the program to our Protobots and test drove them. | ||
== Week Seven - 28 July == | == Week Seven - 28 July == | ||
| - | + | We will map the physical configuration of the robot to commands for timed autonomous control. | |
| + | We will look at the competition template and see how it differs from simple coding where we are not using the field control. | ||
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| + | On July 28th (the next meeting), we will repeat most of the same commands --- but with sensors and operator assistance. The particular sensors that we will review are the button (a contact switch), the limit switch (contact switch) and the ultrasonic sensor (complex sensor). | ||
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| + | If we have time to review more sensors, we will look at the light sensor, the encoders (simple and quadrature), the LED sensors (really just a light that we can turn on), and if we get one, a gyro/rate turn sensor. If we run out of time again, we will probably push these sensors to the next Tuesday. | ||
== Week Eight - 4 August == | == Week Eight - 4 August == | ||
Last meeting night. We will go over team management, how to do team events and news from the Vex partner meeting that took place on 1 August | Last meeting night. We will go over team management, how to do team events and news from the Vex partner meeting that took place on 1 August | ||
