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2018 Championship Presentations
We gave two presentations at the Houston and Detroit Championships presented by Brad Miller, Peter Johnson, and Sam Carlberg: Building and Contributing to WPILib 2018 (which actually had futures for 2019). We discussed what’s coming up for 2019 and how you can contribute to WPILib and the suite of tools. Computer Vision in FIRST where we […]
Championship presentations
At the Championship there were a number of presentations that we gave and they are posted here. They were: Vision in FIRST with Greg McKaskle and Brad Miller FRC Gazebo Presentation with Logan Tutt, Peter Mitrano and Justin Manzo Building and contributing to WPILib to WPILib with Brad Miller, Peter Johnson and Fred Silberberg Feel […]
Import your own SolidWorks robot models into the simulator
With the help of a generous grant from SolidWorks, this past summer a WPI student was able to develop a plugin to export your robot models to a Gazebo compatible format. From there you can import the model into the simulator and run your WPILib C++ and Java code to operate the robot in simulation. The […]
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 […]
Presentation on 2015 control system
Recently we did a couple of workshops on the 2015 FRC control system. There are some slides to go with the talk and they are published here. This describes all the main components of the control system hardware and software. 2015ControlSystem
