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.

my new year resolution was to finish the project i started two years ago,
i kind of gave up on it already.
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Derean