RoboJackets

RoboJackets

Submitted by ben on Thu, 11/04/2010 - 10:57
Contents: 
RoboJackets
Subjects: 
Robotics

RoboJackets is a student robotics group at Georgia Tech.  We have four competition teams (FRC, Battlebots, IGVC, and Robocup). We have an extensive wiki with technical information and events. I have been a member since 2000 and I served as president during the 2004-2005 school year. Recently, I have been most active on the Robocup team. Read more »

XGL Viewer

Submitted by ben on Mon, 10/18/2010 - 17:20
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RoboJackets
Subjects: 
Robotics

This is a viewer for XGL files. I specifically wrote this to display and animate a model of the Circuitrunners 2005 FIRST robot's base. The model was created in Autodesk Inventor and exported as a ZGL files (which is XGL compressed with gzip). This program reads the uncompressed XGL file.

This program has some hard-coded information about the XGL file: Read more »

RoboJackets TE Board

Submitted by ben on Mon, 10/18/2010 - 17:20
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RoboJackets
Subjects: 
Robotics

These boards were designed for the RoboJackets Technical Enrichment sessions of Fall 2005. These sessions are presented annually by Georgia Tech students and alumni to groups of students from Georgia high schools to teach concepts and techniques related to robotics. For more information on these sessions, see the GT FIRST section of the RoboJackets web site. Read more »

FRC OI

Submitted by ben on Mon, 10/18/2010 - 17:01
Contents: 
FIRST
Subjects: 
Reverse Engineering
Robotics

The OI is cool, mainly because it has lots of switches and flashing lights and can be connected to even more switches and lights. It's a useful input box since it has many analog and digital inputs and is easy to connect to anything with a serial port. Read more »

FRC Radios

Submitted by ben on Mon, 10/18/2010 - 16:56
Contents: 
FIRST
Subjects: 
Reverse Engineering
RF
Robotics

The IFI radios are Ewave SCREAMER422 radios. They transmit at 9600 bps and have a serial RS-422 (not RS-232!) interface that runs at 19200 bps. There is documentation on Ewave's site that covers their whole range of radio modems, but it doesn't provide enough information about the SCREAMER422 to actually use it. Read more »

Old FRC Electronics

Submitted by ben on Mon, 10/18/2010 - 16:54
Contents: 
FIRST
Subjects: 
Reverse Engineering
Robotics

The FIRST Robotics Competition is a competition held anually in which high school teams, with corporate or college mentors, play some game remotely with robots. This is a really big series of events. Read more »

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