[CRUSH-code] web resources for robot programmers

[Bill Bennett]

Great programmer meeting Saturday. We got the table driven autonomous mode working, fixed a bug that we've evidently had forever in the real time clock code, and got the rate change limit going on the wheel drive code. These will all serve us during build season.

Brian was asking about resources to learn more about program the FRC. Generally, the places to look are www.microchip.com for details about the C compiler we use and the specific processor, www.ifirobotics.com for information about the FRC itself (I/O, ifi_loader and dashboard, etc), and www.chiefdelphi.com for asking question or searching for answers (or providing them) in the community of FIRST teams, and www.usfirst.org for rules about programming, and some shared libraries. 

Some specific links are these:

>From the FIRST Team Resources page:

2006 FIRST Robotics Competition Software Overview 
C Programming Resource Library 

2006 Competition manuals (rules, game and field description, etc): 
http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2006/frcdocs.htm
For programming rules, look at Section 5 and search on programming. 

>From Innovation First (they make and sell the FRC). 
http://www.ifirobotics.com/rc.shtml
Documents, downloadable programs, sample code, cable and pinout diagrams, all available on this page. Look at the top and the bottom. 

Example code for special devices (gyro, camera, etc) available from Kevin Watson at JPL:
http://kevin.org/frc/ 

Good starting point on Chief Delphi about programming (but not the only place there that's useful):
Share C Programming Resources on the ChiefDelphi Forum 

Tons of painfully detailed information about the processor from Microchip

PIC18 MCU Look for 18F8722, the processor we used in 2006, and 18F8520, the processor for years before that. They are very similar, the same programming tools work for both with minor adjustments. Beware, this is many hundreds of pages of stuff. It's occasionally necessary to look something up, but you won't want to read cover to cover. 
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