Submitted by ben on Mon, 10/18/2010 - 17:20
These boards were designed for the RoboJackets Technical Enrichment sessions of Fall 2005. These sessions are presented annually by Georgia Tech students and alumni to groups of students from Georgia high schools to teach concepts and techniques related to robotics. For more information on these sessions, see the GT FIRST section of the RoboJackets web site. Read more »
Submitted by ben on Mon, 10/18/2010 - 17:01
The OI is cool, mainly because it has lots of switches and flashing lights and can be connected to even more switches and lights. It's a useful input box since it has many analog and digital inputs and is easy to connect to anything with a serial port. Read more »
Submitted by ben on Mon, 10/18/2010 - 16:56
The IFI radios are Ewave SCREAMER422 radios. They transmit at 9600 bps and have a serial RS-422 (not RS-232!) interface that runs at 19200 bps. There is documentation on Ewave's site that covers their whole range of radio modems, but it doesn't provide enough information about the SCREAMER422 to actually use it. Read more »
Submitted by ben on Mon, 10/18/2010 - 16:54
The FIRST Robotics Competition is a competition held anually in which high school teams, with corporate or college mentors, play some game remotely with robots. This is a really big series of events. Read more »
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