Pre-2009 Technical

Pre-2009 Technical

The material on this page pertains to pre-2009 FRC competitions.

IR Board Information

• IR Board Read Me - FIRST IR Board PIC programming helpful information
  
• IR Board Video (Quicktime required) - From 2008 Kickoff
  
• FIRST IR Schematic 

Additional Technical Resources

• 2008 Sensor Strip Schematics
  
• 2008 Motor Specifications
  
  • FisherPrice Motor Curve
  • Taigene Motor Specs (16640238)
  • Keyang Motor Spec (16627960 & 61)
  • Keyang Motor Spec (16631022 & 23)
    
    
• Kevin Watson's FIRST Robotics Competition Code Repository
• Brad Miller's WPI Library for Simplified Robot Controller Programming
  
• Intelitek EasyC tutorials and samples
  
• Neil Rosenberg's (FRC) camera targeting code, includes videos and EasyC/MPLab source code
• Labview info from National Instruments
  
• Briweld Industries - Practice Driver station kits
  
• Innovation First - Official FIRST supplier for the pre-2009 robot control system, speed controllers, and relays
  
• Fluid Power on Pneumatics - Teacher resources on pneumatics

Introduction to C Programming for FIRST

This presentation developed by David Maxwell of Innovation First, is for absolute beginners who want to get started programming the 2004 FIRST Robot Controller.

Module A:
This section introduces the overall process of programming the 2004 FIRST Robot Controller.
(Run time: 10 minutes)

• (ppt - 10.2 MB)(zip - 7.5MB)

Module B:
This Section will highlight what's new with the 2004 Robot Controller, and compare it with previous years' RCs.
(Run time 4:46 minutes)

• (ppt - 7.8 MB)(zip - 6.3MB)

Module C:
Basic C programming concepts are covered in this section.
Part 1 (Run time 12:42 minutes)

• (ppt - 12.3 MB) (zip - 8.3MB)  

Part 2 (Run time 12:10minutes)

• (ppt - 11.7 MB)(zip - 7.9MB)

Module D:
This section will review how this C knowledge will be applied to the Default Code available for the RC.
Part 1 (Run time 14:30 minutes)

• (ppt - 16.1 MB)(zip - 10MB)Part 2 (Run time 12:14minutes)

• (ppt - 14 MB)(zip -8.6MB)

Module E:
This section highlights additional information resources.
(Run time 1:50)

• (ppt - 1.9 MB)(zip - 1.3MB)

Full Presentation:
This is the full presentation in one convenient zipfile.

• (zip - 49.7MB)