Like you, we had problems after we built our robot and tried all the fixes you described, to no avail. My hub must not have gotten the "memo" that a usb...
One burned out on our team during one of the seeding rounds in our hub competition... I would bet that the 3+ amp stall current that those large motors pull...
Our team had wifi linking problem after we updated the mastercode. When we rolled the mastercode back to the version that is on the cd's that our hub provided,...
We checked for connection before the other robots arrived in the pits that morning. We had connection for about 3 minutes, then it was gone. We lost connection...
We've had no speed controller issues this year, but we did last year (we wired 2 motors to a single speed controller, overloading the controller). The speed...
I'm pretty sure that ports 1 and 10 on the Cortex have the same chip used in the external speed controller - the external controllers are cheap fuses relative...
I will only remark on your last paragraph. Definitely a great competition. It's all about the real world and working through problems is part of life anyway. ...
To aid in the development of the software that runs our robot, the ThunderRidge Robotics Club created a small API that handles some of the basic functions that...
We were there this past Saturday in North Houston. We had connection 1 time out of the 8 preliminary rounds. The parts replacement area had us tried out 4 sets...
Just a quick update on our issue: Since we replaced the faulty battery connector and mounted the WiFi adapter on our arm, we've had zero connection issues in...
We asked but were not allowed to use a usb extension at our hub competition. You have solved the problem as far as pratice is concerned. If wifi is the issue,...
Good Morning, The guys would like to operate a server using one of the push buttons on the front of the controller... Push the button, the servo activates,...
Yes, they mated them over and over again while they frantically tried to get their robots to connect while the head referee went ahead and started the round....
What you're asking for is actually somewhat easier than what we've posted here, but you might want to try something like this on for size... it's the code from...
MathWorks provided software, "BEST Simulink Library", could be used to achieve this behavior very easily. You could program a digital button to turn your servo...
It is not actually hard at all to do that if you are using EasyC. You should be able to use the same methodology for the other programs. Basically you assign a...
We just finished hub competition. Our robot only disconnected in one round out of 9 total, and that issue may have been a battery problem (since it was finally...
Brian, Thank you for replying. Will take a look but looks like what we are looking for. Will you be available later for questions to verify our understanding...
It's incredibly easy in Simulink. You need a 1) joystick digital block (i.e, the button) 2) a gain block 3) a servo block Connect output of joystick digital...
Got a problem getting the cortex and joystick controller to connect after downloading a program. (I'm cross-posting between here and the RobotC forum, so if...
OK, got a reply from Jesse Flot over on the RobotC forum. This is a RobotC issue. RobotC allows you to specify the download connection method, and we had...
You may have read a thread I started recently about the North Houston BEST Competition and all the robot controllers that could not connect to their...
Our competition was yesterday. We used Mathworks with the Logitech f310 to simulate the program and insure that all was working correctly. We were late...
I made the following suggestions to Dr. George Banks, the executive director of BEST, and Ken Berry, the regional director for Texas BEST. * Have each team...
Yes, the teams mated the receivers and controllers. Read the post by Sam Saenz. He was at the same hub and gives an excellent description of the attempts made...
Our Game Day was Oct. 29th. I do not know of any WiFi interference experienced among teams during our competition, despite there being several WiFi networks...
I was a referee at our local hub competition this past Saturday. Consequently I watched 50+ rounds from up close, and in most of those rounds the teams that I...
Same here- our game day was Oct. 29 and I did not see any problems with communication. We were using facilities at a local college and they did have a wifi...
