
Archive for 2015
New features coming to 2016 RobotBuilder

RobotBuilder has seen a lot of improvements over the summer around ease of use. The big new features are: Parameterized commands. You can create a command (think set point command) that takes a parameter which is the PID set point. Then each time you want the arm, the elevator, or the shooter to move to […]
New tool for C++ Programming with old cRIOs

From Jeff Downs, mentor on FRC Team 1511, Rolling Thunder: If your team is like mine and has a bunch of old cRIOs laying around for prototyping use or installed on old robots to use for demonstrations and such, and you’ve been programming them using C++, you may have recently found yourself unable to program […]
FRC 2015 Field Pictures

To help teams see what a real field looks like in more detail, we are publishing a set of pictures featuring Kevin O’Connor, FIRST software engineer, that you can download of the FRC 2015 field as set up for the Kickoff filming. Feel free to download these images to help you verify your robot designs […]
Sample Images for Vision projects

Finding totes in this years game can be a challenge so to help you debug your robot programs and have images exactly like you’d see on a real field we have these photos of the field from the Manchester kickoff. It includes a number of sample images taken with an Axis camera, some at normal […]
FRCSim robotics simulator new for 2015

WPI, in conjunction with the Open Source Robotics Foundation, has developed a free and open-source 3-D simulation environment available to all FRC teams using C++ and Java. The FRCsim package is built on top of the Gazebo robotics simulator that has matured under DARPA funding. Using FRCSim, teams can develop and deploy C++ or Java WPILib robot programs to […]
FRC 2168 OpenCV library for the roboRIO and BeagleBone processors

OpenCV is the premier open source vision library and can be found in many commercial and research robots. From the OpenCV web site: “OpenCV is released under a BSD license and hence it’s free for both academic and commercial use. It has C++, C, Python and Java interfaces and supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS, iOS […]