Robotics Related New Years Resolution

Haha, my resolutions this year don't quite include hacking every computer in the world, but maybe in a few years. :-)

Here are a few:

• Produce at least 2 major innovations in time for GCER
• At least one of said innovations be a result of collaboration with another team (most likely Nease, although if any other teams want to collaborate on something, just contact me)
• Write up said innovations as GCER papers
• Not have every live demo fail at the GCER presentation
• Have one of said GCER papers win some award
• Have at least one innovation ready for the Oklahoma regional
• Win some award/trophy at regionals for said innovation
• Actually do better at regionals overall than last year (last year we got 5th place out of 36 teams), maybe even win
• Get into the final bracket at GCER, maybe even win
• Get the YAC Match Recording project working by the time of GCER
• Get the YAC GCER Live-Blog Challenge implemented for GCER
• Use the Botballer's Chat frequently enough that other people start using it regularly as well
• Successfully fend off attempts by bureaucrats in the school district to destroy the Norman Botball team
• Recruit all of the serious 8th grade Botballers in Norman to the high school team as soon as they graduate middle school in May
• Continue to have a robotics-related summer job (KIPR intern is awesome assuming they want me back)
• Void the warranty on at least one piece of equipment
• Don't brick that equipment, so that I don't need the voided warranty
• Keep a 4.0 GPA, including college classes

How's that?

Wow, nice man.

I am interested in helping you out with some of the YAC ones.

Awesome, any help is welcome! I think we'll discuss the projects in the first meeting of the 2010 YAC.

Rand are going to make a new CBC compiler and start some more competition for KISS, CBCJava and CBC Lua. Make a C++ compiler for the CBC, CBC++. Make sure to have USB download available.

Hey Intelburn,

I actually have C++ working pretty well. In fact, one of the projects which I plan to present at GCER is in C++. I offered to post a new version of the Norman/Nease CBC Mod Installer which has much better support for C++, but unfortunately no one seemed interested (other than Matt). Given the lack of interest, I may be waiting for GCER to release it, or at least wait for the CBCv2 to come out so that I can make it v2-compatible.

As for USB download, the CBCv1's FTDI port is very poor. The default transfer rate is over 100 times slower than Wi-Fi or Ethernet, data corruption tends to happen frequently, and no useful tools such as SSH or SCP will work with them. As a result, I decided to not bother with it. My Wi-Fi card cost me less than $30, and you can buy an Ethernet adapter for around $10. Trust me, once you scrap the FTDI port, you'll be glad you did.

(Of course, you could probably modify the KISS-C source code quite easily to have it send C++ code to the CBC without throwing an error... once you do that, the CBC Mods will take care of the rest without further modification, and KISS-C will handle the FTDI port.)

I plan to try and recreate the Botball game board using CAD software, the piping list, and the photo from the teaser thread.