@JamsG , I have mixed feelings about posting to the SpamBot thread.
On one hand it got to be deleted, because OP seems to be very prolific poster but, on the other hand, @TriDragon posts above are funny enough to keep it alive
To answer your question about controlling your robot with an alternative interface here are some relevant prior art threads:
This thread only applies to college teams.
There was lots of discussion earlier this year about the partner joystick port and alternative devices that could be interfaced to it.
magicode had asked about using this port and had received this answer.
There had also been posts about the communications protocol in threads such as this and this. I had posted some code that could be used on a PC to communicate with the partner port but what was/is really needed is an embedded solution.
To address…
Hello, I had the idea to create a custom controller, but how would you do that with Vex? I am using the older PIC microcontroller, so would I be able to use the RX/TX communications? If I knew what is being sent over the antenna, maybe I could wire a XBee and an Arduino to sent and receive data from a controller. I don’t know. Does anyone think it is possible to make a custom controller for the pic without using and of the ports besides tx and rx, and make it wireless?
Hello all! One of things on Team BNS we have been trying to figure out is ways of sending and receiving data on the fly to be able to better debug our robots. Our initial approach to this is to use an HC-05 Bluetooth module that connects into the extra UART port on the cortex. There are a lot of advantages to using the HC-05 module like this, such as many computers and phones have bluetooth built in, so connecting to your robot should be pretty straight forward. Additionally, being able to s…
Finally, if your project doesn’t require a lot of motors or sensors, you can control 393 motors directly from an ESP8266 module from the browser on your smart phone:
Unfortunately, for many teams the season is almost over and, if they are school based, they may not have access to the Cortex or V5 system until the next school year.
That is a long downtime when students could learn a lot of important skills, like the advanced autonomous programming, if they had access to the hardware.
Even though VEX system is positioned as affordable robotics platform it may still be out of reach for an average middle school or high school student.
However, there is an ine…
This library was developed by one of our teams and the source code is freely available from the github .
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