This is essentially just a maintenance release with a couple of important changes. The Changelog is small but the fixes are great (taken from the original article): NEW Joystick Configuration Utility – Added compatibility for custom joystick configurations; the Joystick Configuration Utility can now be used to configure a wide [...]
It’s finally finished and ready to be published, my Robot Virtual Worlds Maze Crawler is fully functional. Check out the screenshot below. The engine for this robot consists of two Finite State Machines (FSM) that handle the cruising around, turning, scanning, etc. Here’s a little video of it, doing its [...]
The people who watched last week’s Webinar, got a glimpse of what’s coming in ROBOTC 4.x. I’m very excited about this as it will support two new platforms: the VEX IQ and of course the new MINDSTORMS EV3. I’m currently working on overhauling the Driver Suite, so it will be [...]
I wrote an article a little while back for the May/June 2013 issue of Robot Magazine entitled “Pointers and Data Structures in ROBOTC”. You can now download the PDFs for the individual pages here! I hope you find it useful. [Page 1] [Page 2] [Page 3] You can find the [...]
The summer of 2013 is gearing up to be more than just a time for chilling by the pool! The 2013 Summer of Learning is sponsored by Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Academy and uses their Computer Science Student Network (CS2N) Project to host all training plus resources provided by The Robotics [...]
I’ve been dabbling with Robot Virtual World (RVW) worlds a bit lately. If you’ve never played with that before then let me take a second to explain it. RVW is a 3D virtual robotics system made by Robomatter, which allows you to program and control several different robot models, using [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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