Aligning your fruit ‘n veg If you’ve ever had to output anything on the screen in ROBOTC, you’ve probably used nxtDisplayTextLine() or one of its many siblings. Your code may, or may not have looked something like this: task main() { int num_apples = 10; // how do you like [...]
The 3.3.1 release of the Driver Suite is hopefully the last of the 3.x series. I’ve now started working on implementing a new architecture for Driver Suite 4.x. Some things will change, some remain the same: Sensor related data is now kept in structs, so buffers will no longer be shared [...]
Dexter Industries have unleashed another sensor into the wild, the dLight. I sort of ran my mouth a little, when I released my previous version of the Driver Suite by mentioning it then. However, it’s out now and available from the Dexter Industries website. So what exactly is the dLight? [...]
There’s a new release version of ROBOTC out now. No longer just a beta, this one’s for real! There are so many changes since the last release, 3.54, you’d have to be crazy not to update! I’ve been testing the in-between releases like mad, 3.56, 359 and some builds in [...]
Now that both HiTechnic and Mindsensors have a SensorMUX, it may be a good opportunity to highlight some of the differences between the two. The HiTechnic SensorMUX This one has been around for a few years now and is well liked with FTC teams everywhere. It allows you hook up [...]
For about two weeks there was a bit of a scare, while the FIRST folks were deciding whether or not my Driver Suite was actually legal to use in the FTC. It had been used for years prior to someone actually asking the question. Their initial reaction was “no”, but [...]
Version 3.3 is out and should work just fine with all version of ROBOTC for NXT of at least 3.59. I still need more testers for the dWiFI and NXT2WIFI sensors, so if you’re keen, let me know. If you’re not keen, then, ehm, don’t. IMPORTANT NOTICE(S)! This suite will [...]
I was incensed when I read that a student by the name of Landon Woollard from Shasta High School in Redding, CA was the first student to get his ROBOTC certification. First of all, I had no idea this certification even existed,l nobody told me! Imagine that. Now, second of [...]
With ROBOTC 3.59 came two new sensor types, the sensorCustom and the complimentary sensorCustom9V. This sensor type was introduced to allow the fast toggling of the dig0 and dig1 lines on the NXT’s sensor ports. Normally, these pins are either used for RS485, I2C or controlling the light on a [...]
Mindsensors are about to release a Sensor MUX of their own! This one works very differently in that instead of doing the polling of the attached sensors for you, it allows itself to become a channel to said sensor. So, in essence, you send it a command, like “give me [...]
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