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3.02.2013
Using the VEX LCD with the Arduino
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Have you ever needed an easy way to display output from your Arduino? Sure, it is possible to use the serial monitor when the robot is conn...
2.10.2013
Choosing a Resistor for your LED
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I got an Arduino (Uno) for Christmas! :-) Now that I've expressed my excitement, I'll continue on to the rest of this post. A s...
1.20.2013
ROBOTC Pointers and Stacks Tutorial
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Xander over at BotBench.com has written up an excellent tutorial on using pointers in ROBOTC. This is a great help, especially for progra...
1.03.2013
ROBOTC: Functions
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I recently responded to a question about subroutines on the VEX Forum. I wrote up a fairly detailed response, so I decided to turn it into...
12.19.2012
Line Following Tutorial Videos for FLL
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When you look for FLL robot videos on YouTube, you will often find that the world's "best" robots often make use of the light/...
12.01.2012
USA Computing Olympiad
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RoboDesigners programming team members competed in the November competition of the USA Computing Olympiad (USACO). This is a great competi...
9.08.2012
Updating Firmware
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Have you ever needed to update your NXT firmware, and didn't know exactly how? I've just uploaded a video to YouTube that sho...
9.05.2012
First Experiences with Parallax Board of Education
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LED blinker I'm now taking an Intro to Engineering course at Virginia Western Community College. As part of this course, students ...
4.05.2012
Arrays in ROBOTC
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I've seen multiple people ask how arrays work in ROBOTC, so I thought I'd write a post about arrays. Note: I'm going to be desc...
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4.03.2012
VEX Pre-World Scrimmage
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The VEX Pre-World Scrimmage was held Saturday, March 31 at the Carroll County Agriculture Center in Westminster, Maryland. We drove 5 hou...
3.20.2012
High School Programming Competition @ UVa
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Rice Auditorium What's it like to go to a High School Programming Challenge at UVa? In this blog entry I will describe our recent ...
3.18.2012
An easy way to install Ubuntu
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Recently, I decided I wanted to try Ubuntu Linux. However, I just wanted to try it; I didn't want to replace my installation of Win...
3.13.2012
QR Codes
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QR codes have become nearly ubiquitous in recent years, and are a great way to encourage people to visit a website while out and about. ...
3.06.2012
Funding Robotics
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For me, funding is the most difficult part of doing robotics. We do robotics independently, so we are not affiliated with a school, 4H grou...
3.04.2012
Selecting Autonomous with LCD (ROBOTC)
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One of the great features of the VEX LCD screen is that it can be used to select multiple autonomous modes. However, figuring out how to do...
2.15.2012
ROBOTC and the VEX LCD
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In an older post , I reviewed the VEX LCD and provided some uses for it. Now I will explain some of the commands to program the VEX LCD wit...
2.13.2012
The Single Driver Advantage
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At the last tournament I competed in, a coach of another team approached me and mentioned that he was impressed that my robot required only ...
1.23.2012
VEX CAD
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A VEX Robot in Autodesk Inventor The VEX Robotics system requires much more time and effort to build with than LEGO Mindstorms. Break...
1.22.2012
VEX LCD
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What is the VEX LCD, and why should I use it? The VEX LCD is a two line text screen that can display 16 characters per line. It also ha...
1.16.2012
Learn to Program Using Python
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Check out this book - Hello World Computer Programming for Kids . It is about $21.00 from Amazon. It will give you instructions on how to ...
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