2015:Programming

Lights!

• Goal: state signaling
• Current probably viable plan:
  • On driver command, lights flash white
  • Horizontal Light strip on top brace of lifter (back only): 
    • Match gripper position (single L-R bar, with value 0 to 1), with green horizontal progress-bar-thingy
    • Use red to off gradient from corresponding side when the gripper is at end of travel
    • Add a blue component to lights when tote is (measured) present
  • Identical vertical light strips on sides of lifter elevator (probably top 1/3rd of lifter, back only):
    • Match lifter position with green vertical progress-bar-thingy
    • Use red to off gradient again as end of travel warning
    • When brakeing, change progress bar to yellow
    • Broken sensors have a red progress bar
    • It turns blue when it is at the requested height
  • Use Adafruit Neopixel light strips, controlled by Arduino Micro
  • (Net cost ~$100)

Google Docs

2015 Google Docs Folder

• Contains transient spreadsheets for design, planning, etc.
• Holds small installers for utilities like Git, Doxygen, and Wireshark
  • (They are zipped so you don't need a proxy to download them on certain wireless networks)

Things a bored and aspiring student should read

Introduction to Git

C++FAQ on Stackoverflow

• A list of questions, some of which explain things you'll want to know (pointers, const, and memory), others which you don't (prvalues, lambda, SFINAE)

Reading all of http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/index.html takes a while as well, but helps

• Caveat: Just because fancy techniques exist doesn't mean you should use them

Programming Sub-pages and Links

• 2015:Autonomous
• Documentation
  • WPILib_Screensteps
  • WPILib documentation
• Doxygen
  • Doxygen Comment Rules
  • Update site: http://download.gna.org/eclox/update
• Git (2014 and beyond)
  • Git Setup
  • Main git repositories
  • Auxiliary git repositories
• SVN (up to 2013)
  • SVN Setup
  • Online browsing of our SVN Tree
• Jaguar Firmware Notes
• 2015:Robot IO Map

Programming Archives

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