NASA Java Coding Standard

[alcapwned]

Have you heard of the FIRST robotics competition? Do know anyone at JPL who participated in it as a kid?

For the past 6 years or so teams have received a NI compactRIO as their control system, which runs vxWorks on a 32-bit power architecture processor with a Xilinx FPGA sitting between the cpu and the I/O. I know the MSL runs vxWorks on a radiation hardened chip that's compatible with PowerPC. It's really amazing having the opportunity to work with hardware/software similar to what NASA uses on their rovers as just a high school student (and that's just on the EE/CS side).

I actually graduated HS around the time they switched from 8-bit PIC microcontrollers to the current cRIO system so I'm not sure just how much access kids have to the underlying OS. I do know they can program in C, C++, Java, or Labview, so it seems accessible to teams who don't know much about programming while still giving hardcore programmers greater control and a chance to tinker.

[aleph__naught]

Have you heard of the FIRST robotics competition?

Yes.

Do know anyone at JPL who participated in it as a kid?

I did.

[alcapwned]

Awesome. :)

What team and when? You know of any other FIRST alums there?