2. Erik A. Cokeley - 2007 Programming Workshop FIRST 2007

3. Erik A. Cokeley - 2007 Presenter –Erik A. Cokeley –Involved in FIRST for 10 years Mentor - Hightstown High School - Team 1089 –NJIT - Junior –Computer Science Major –Experienced with the Microchip PIC –Autonomous robots –Program in C, C++, Assembly, Java –Familiar with the FIRST Default Code –Familiar with Kevin’s Camera Code

4. Erik A. Cokeley - 2007 Workshop Outline –Resources –Software Installation –Some Gotchas –Review the Default Design –Loading your code into your robot –Operator Interface –Robot Controller –Other Hardware –Sensors –Some examples –Questions

5. Erik A. Cokeley - 2007 Resources FIRST - www.usfirst.org Innovation FIRST - www.ifirobotics.com Kit & Manual Microchip - www.microchip.com ChiefDelphi – www.chiefdelphi.com ChiefDelphi Whitepapers - www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers Kevin Watson – www.kevin.org/frc Blue Alliance - www.thebluealliance.net Me! - FirstJerseyKid@comcast.net

6. Erik A. Cokeley - 2007 Installation Procedure Use CD from kit or download MPLab and C18 from Microchip Install MPLab Click on the setup file for the C18 compiler Select the options that allow the IDE to be updated Try to compile Default Code –Unzip frc_code.zip –Open FrcCode.mcw –Select “Build All” in MPLab IDE Install ifi_loader

7. Erik A. Cokeley - 2007 Design Flow Competition Mode Autonomous Mode 26.2 ms

8. Erik A. Cokeley - 2007 IFI Loader Turn on Robot Controller Tether PC to RC’s Program Port –Use correct cable! –USB to Serial Converter causes long load times Put Robot into Program Mode Load Default Code hex file –Select COM Port in IFI_Loader –Browse for hex file –Click upload Robot Ready to Go!

9. Erik A. Cokeley - 2007 Operator Interface (OI)

10. Erik A. Cokeley - 2007 Robot Controller (RC)

11. Erik A. Cokeley - 2007 Some Other Hardware

12. Erik A. Cokeley - 2007 Some Sensors Analog vs. Digital Camera Gyro Encoder Potentiometer Pressure switch Touch switch Line switch Infrared Hall Effect

13. Erik A. Cokeley - 2007 Some Examples Mapping Controls to Joysticks Autonomous Dead Reckoning Integrating the Camera Using a potentiometer to measure an analog voltage

14. Erik A. Cokeley - 2007 Questions?

15. Erik A. Cokeley - 2007 For More Info Erik Cokeley – FirstJerseyKid@comcast.net