So, honestly, who's still programming?

[BenZimmerEnable]

Hey Everyone,

I had several conversations yesterday with mentors from teams who are either:
- withholding their controller and a few sensors and actuators from shipment to do further programming work between now and competition
- planning to program blind (without hardware) and cross their fingers that they can tweak it on compliance day

Being a rookie mentor (though LONGtime LabVIEW programmer) I didn't honestly consider these options as viable.

However, if I can help by producing one or two more LVMastery TipJar videos in the meantime, I would be happy to.

Please reply to this thread if you have a topic in mind.

Thanks,
Ben

www.LVMastery.com/FRCTipJar

[njg]

I'm also a rookie mentor (long time LabVIEW programmer) working with a rookie team.  We decided not to hold anything back since that would have required disassembly and reassembly; however, we are planning to accomplish a little more programming between now and the competition.  The main area left undone has been the user interface of the dashboard application.  Right now our contribution is a set of numbers, with the intention of adding sliders, dials, lights and anything else that will help to visualize the feedback from sensors.  We're also hoping to tweak a few parts of the robot code that weren't working as well as we would like.  For this piece I've logged some sensor data from the robot.  Certainly there's a risk in changing things without the ability to interactively test the code, but we've saved an image of our "ship" code and are using version control software so hopefully we'll only make forward progress.

[njg]

PS: Thank you for the tipjar videos.  Your overview of the framework was very helpful for me personally.  All of them were very well done and presented at an appropiate level.  I just wish more of our stundent programmers would have watched them!

[Now_With_Underscores]

Make sure that if you are going to continue to modify your code you first make a backup copy of the code that WORKED WHEN YOUR ROBOT SHIPPED, put it on a flash drive, and bring it with you to competition.  That way, if you get to the competition and your modified code doesn't work, you'll still have working code to compete with.  Just my $0.02

[pallen]

Hey Ben,

Did you have your first competion yet?

How did they do?

[Carolina1102]

Where can I find these Videos I'm a FRC sophmore programmer who worked with the FTC last year and Labview is nothing like NXT-G i would really appriciate some help.

Thank You

John Fogarty

1102

[BenZimmerEnable]

www.LVMastery.com/FRCTipJar

All the best,

Ben