LHS Robotics

LHS Robotics
This is the blog detailing the everyday and not-so-everyday escapades of the Lincoln High School Robotics Team, also known as the New Victorians. We compete in the FIRST FRC competition and the MATE ROV Challenge. Our meetings are in room 223 during afternoon FLEX.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Programming Workshop 3 on Thrusday

Hi programmers
We will be having our third programming workshop on Thursday. Below, I've posted some information on the 2010 FRC control system you'll be learning to program. I recommend you read the introduction before Thursday's workshop.

2010 control system home page (this page is a central spot where you can go to get all control system documentation)

2010 control system introduction (read this)

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Deadlines

I've updated the calendar with the following deadlines:

Feb 23 – Ship Robot

Feb12 - fully functional robot for rodeo DONE!

Feb 5 – Code and Manipulator DONE!

Feb 5 – Lifting mechanism DONE!

Feb 5 – Righting Mechanism DONE!

Jan 25 – Driving Base Construction DONE!

Jan 19 – Final Design DONE!

Jan 15 – Chosen Main Design DONE!

FRC Rules and Documents

Here are the places where you can find the rules and information about this year's FRC competition:
Competition manual (describes virtually everything about the competition rules, arena, robot specifications, scoring, etc.)

Awards (we want to apply to as many of these as we are eligible for. If you want to write a submission for one, go for it, and make sure you let the team know so that we don't have duplicates)

Control System Information (Programmers, please read! Note the serial # registration bug, and the steps you need to take to fix it.)



Sunday, January 3, 2010

Programming Workshop 2 on Thrusday

Attention programmers: we will be having a second programming workshop this Thursday, after school. Please bring a laptop with MPlab IDE, the C18 linker, and IFI loader installed. In this workshop, I'll walk you through adapting our basic code to a robot (fluffy), and then actually loading the code onto the bot.