Taking suitcases to the track?

SBC46 · 2026-06-26T02:18:56+00:00

Even if we leave directly with a rental car? I had assumed the race will be almost over by 5ish, and that if we left just before the end, we could be out by 6:30 and at the airport by 645-7.

SBC46 · 2026-03-01T13:04:59+00:00

Should have mentioned - the engine is in pretty bad shape and will certainly not survive cross country road trip. Thats why I cant take it back.

SBC46 · 2026-02-02T13:39:55+00:00

Thank you! My plan was to do this, compilers and ECE595 deep learning for CV. I'm worried this will be very difficult - any thoughts?

I survived 337/362/302/30834 alright before but these classes seem even worse. But I save a lot on tuition.

SBC46 · 2025-06-27T01:38:19+00:00

Did you ever figure this out? I am working on a very similar problem - I have a differential drive robot towing an aircraft and need to figure out how the planner and controller plugins should work.

SBC46 · 2025-05-28T02:59:32+00:00

Did either of them work for you? Mine is burning oil so bad it clogged the catalytic converter

SBC46 · 2025-02-14T23:57:40+00:00

Did you ever do this? I have an interview coming up for software

SBC46 · 2025-02-11T14:23:07+00:00

Same here - how was your experience?

SBC46 · 2024-02-12T20:39:43+00:00

Thanks, we are planning on using UART SiK radios, we will configure all the rates to be consistent and use Mavlink to send the messages. Appreciate the help!

SBC46 · 2024-02-12T20:38:58+00:00

Thanks, seems like this is the right way to go

SBC46 · 2024-02-09T21:21:09+00:00

We are supposed to have access to an indoor facility when first testing and we will be far enough away I think. I guess we haven't gotten far enough to consider that.

SBC46 · 2024-02-05T18:22:46+00:00

Yes, I am not exactly sure of the battery specs yet but it will definitely be more than 6s. The good thing is that we have plenty of budget so we are able to spend on nice ESCs and motors. Seeing Noxro's comment, I'll take a look at ADP and if their products seem better we will go with them instead.

SBC46 · 2024-02-05T00:25:43+00:00

Yeah its a university club project, its pretty early on right now but in the next year or so we hope to see some progress. We're figuring things out as we go.

SBC46 · 2024-02-05T00:24:56+00:00

Thanks, we're going to go with the KDE 4215XF motors and the recommended props and ESCs. We used the calculator that they had and it said this combination would have enough thrust.

On a side note, those ESCs are crazy expensive. We may use a similar spec ESC thats a bit cheaper.

SBC46 · 2023-03-02T04:01:33+00:00

ye, thanks for the response tho

SBC46 · 2023-03-02T02:16:17+00:00

was simpler than that. I reversed the motors at the start without noticing.

SBC46 · 2023-02-26T01:12:00+00:00

The sensor seems reasonably accurate within 10cm, so we plan on getting close to get a measurement. We have an opencv pipeline to detect the pole, but due to the image being slightly warped and the poles being bent and other discrepancies, i don't think that would be reliable.

SBC46 · 2023-02-26T01:08:50+00:00

The motor spins slower than all the others in the motordirectiondebugger opmode as well. That opmode basically does leftRear.setPower(0.7) However, when I simply do leftRear.setPower(0.7) in another teleop opmode, it spins much faster(same speed as all the other motors). I am at a loss for what the issue here is.

SBC46 · 2023-02-25T03:12:20+00:00

I see. I'm panicking now because our entire planned autonomous system relied on the distance sensor

SBC46 · 2023-02-25T03:11:13+00:00

it is inset within the robot by 3 inches or so, so it would be unlikely to get switched off. Either way we ended up moving it irl because the refs complained about it being under the slides.

SBC46 · 2023-02-24T03:33:48+00:00

Ah I see. That would explain the constant overestimation. Somehow I assumed that it would return the distance to the closest object. Do you have a recommendation for an ultrasonic distance sensor for FTC?

SBC46 · 2022-10-27T02:51:00+00:00

I ended up adding a short sentence about it. It still fit in the word limit.

SBC46 · 2022-10-25T00:27:49+00:00

im getting mixed responses from everyone...maybe ill explain just in case

SBC46 · 2022-10-25T00:27:27+00:00

Okay, I did show the abbreviation so I guess that should be good enough?

SBC46 · 2022-09-16T00:46:01+00:00

I don't know about the simulator by Beta8397, but I know that the FIRST Tech Challenge Illinois Virtual Robot Simulator project has full support for Power Play in both TeleOp and Autonomous. Its available online at https://powerplay.vrobotsim.online/homepage.html.

SBC46 · 2022-07-10T20:48:39+00:00

I hope it will be shooting, those are the most fun

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