Well done team! Strategy surely plays a factor in this and all BEST "games". Your industry mentor is a keeper. It seems the hard lessons learned by the kids...
To Kenny York: Good idea about the watchdog disable, then reenabling while the wait() is running. To dmgauntt2002: Yes, I know what the watchdog is there for,...
During an intermission a team in Mobile was able assemble and hang a plane in eleven minutes and two seconds. The majority of teams in Mobile used the dump...
... Ambassadors for Christ Academy out of the KansasBEST Hub are the highest that I know of. They scored Thirteen or fourteen hundred I believe. I know they...
... plane in eleven ... dump part method. ... Andale High school out of the KansasBEST Hub, was able to build a plane 3 times during their game day. This...
WHAT?!? No brains for sale? (Sorry about the pun) I want details, gimme everything, spill your guts, void some warranties, etc.! Why not on a forum?...
... Guilty as charged. I've used that construct so many times in so many contexts that I forgot that it may not be obvious at first glance to everyone how it...
... servo closer to the brai and ... to the gripper. ... The kit provides two big spools of wire. This means that the brain can afford to be farther away from...
Sounds like an awesome drive system! Anyway, about the code, I've posted an (easy?) how-to that you can use to paste code to the brain to acheive good driving....
What about monkeying with the gain? MyVariable = getRcValue(channelNumber, deadbandNumber, ReallyHighGainHere); //Do any optional offset positional change math...
Huh? Sitting still gets you 100 points? No tie-breaker switch hitting, no FOD, no plane parts, nothing. 100 pts.? Where's it coming from? Or did I not read the...
The Eight phases of grief over robotics: - Shock: This game is going to be hard. - Denial: No one can get a perfect score. - Bargaining: Maybe we can still...
Thanks, you've expressed similar thoughts we've gone through, this and past BEST competitions. It's not only the kids but the adults, too. As adults and...
... A lot of teams were blindsided by the BRAIN this year. As a mentor, I am planning on leading a self-directed study course in the school on writing...
Does anyone know where to buy more of the 26 guage electrical wire? We are in need of more for a second robot we've been working on and want to be sure that...
Our consumable kit does not list any 26 gauge wire, just 18 gauge red and black wire typically used for motor and switch wiring. If I were doing check-in...
I am new to the BEST competition this year and have absolutely zero knowledge of C, C+ or any other code-related information, so please forgive me. I...
Okay, this is about to drive me nuts. Competition day is this Saturday and I am trying to finish getting the brain ready. As part of that, I am trying to...
Here is an example of the code as I have it currently. Used the wizard to set channels 1, 2, and 4 as proportional motor controls and channel 3 to control a...
The error messages you are getting are trying to tell you that you must define each and every variable before you use it. try adding the following line after...
Looks like that is what was missing. I pasted that directly above the line int main( void ) and it gives me no errors. I initially put it right below that but...
The messages are really, really trying to help you, but I guess you have to understand what they're telling you... These are warnings; they won't prevent the...
Ummmm - didn't see that you had posted code, until after the other responses ... By using wizard code with the other remapping code, you're trying to drive...
Thanks. I was able to figure out that it was informational, I guess I just wasn't clear in my post about that. Anyways, as far as the brackets go, if I just...
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