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Robotics videos
Some of the faculty of the WPI Robotics Engineering program have helped develop a series of videos aimed at helping you: learn more about robotics and provide some of the knowledge needed to design and build robots. You can watch all the videos or choose any single video to help you solve a particular problem […]
WPILib Robot Builder developer tool
One of the difficulties that we have seen teams have looking at robot programs written in Java and C++ is getting the structure correct for future development and expansion of the program. Also there is the tendency to not develop the robot program until much of the hardware is finished. To help solve both of […]
WPILib Tutorial Videos posted
There are a number of tutorial videos posted on YouTube describing robot development with WPILib. The videos walk through the process of developing a robot program for GearsBot, a small demonstration robot that uses a cRIO controller, 4 motors, and an elevator with a gripper to grab soda cans. In addition there is a video […]
WPILib New Features for 2012
Here is a link to a presentation that was given at the Kickoff Workshops yesterday at FIRST. It describes many of the new features for the 2012 version of C++ and Java. 2012NewFeatures
New features in Java and C++ WPILib for 2012
The 2012 version of WPILib for Java and C++ will have a host of new features, all currently in beta. Here are some previews of the coolest new stuff: Command-based programming You can easily get control of complex actions in your robot using the Command-based programming design patterns. The idea is that you create Subsystem […]
