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== Mentor/Coach Training: Get a Chance to Build a Robot Yourself! == Adult Robot Training -- Tuesdays 6:30-8:30 Downingtown Educational Center -- Next meeting is October 20th, contact us to get signed up! We will wrap up building our Protobots this week. Come finish your robot and compete! Program your robot with RobotC starting a week from tomorrow (two nights). == Learn to Program Your Robot! == [[image:robotc_logo.png|right|50px]] On Wednesday nights, we are beginning to program with ROBOTC and a Vex controller and various motors, servos, and sensors. You need to bring YOUR laptop. Windows XP is the very best platform. Windows 2000 is OK. Vista is pretty touch-and-go (Some people have made it work, others, not so much). If you use Vista, you need to go to RadioShack and buy a Gigaware USB-to-Comm cable (big black cable). If you don't you wont' be able to download your program to your robot. And yes, I understand that you already paid for the orange programming cable and you are mad that it doesn't work. Sorry. I didn't make these operating systems or USB drivers. The orange cable is based on the Prolific driver and that driver does not work with Vista (don't tell me that you have gotten it to work ... I can't take time out from the class to focus on solutions that I know have issues.) Don't even ask about a Macintosh(unless you are running Wine and are an expert at it) or running Linux or Windows 7. This workshop is not about teaching operating systems, it is about programming the robot! You need to buy RobotC. Foster can help with that. You need to install the USB drivers from the RobotC.net site. You really need to set up your laptop before you come to the class. If you don't we will try to update the laptop AFTER the class, and you will need to look at someone else's laptop during the class. Here is the link to download the [http://www.robotc.net/content/vex_down/vex_down.html RobotC for IFI] to program the Vex. <br clear=all /> == Start Your Team! == There is still grant money available for new teams! Contact Info at stemrobotics dot org for more details.
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