Advanced Programming Features
• Powerful C compiler
• Code templates
• Predictive text editor
• Interactive debugger
• Statistical functions
• Automatically increases / decreases source code indents based on code syntax and structure
• Optional predictive text editor
• Hovering over a keyboard / variable activities tool tips.
• Unlimited undos - Not just the last action!
• The only interactive debugger available for VEX, enabling a dramatic reduction in development time
• Continously checks for over 50 different causes of software failures
• Supports user-defined breakpoints in source code.
• Basic and expert modes target both novice and advanced students
Engineering
• System design and analysis
• Rapid prototyping
• Problem solving
• Teamwork
• Critical thinking
• Hands-on application of theoretical knowledge with real world examples
Mechatronics
• Easy-to-use integrated control algorithms. Closed loop PID control of motors with customization of PID factors. Students can easily design and program control algorithms from first principles.
• Easy data logging & capture of experimental data with upload to PC Excel
• A wide variety of feedback and control strategies for experimentation
Embedded Systems
• Standard C language
• Use of either industry standard built-in communications protocols or student-designed solutions
• Program at high-level and low-level hardware control.
• Easily develop and add customized sensors
• Quickly interface new peripherals, such as keypads and displays, using accessory prototyping board
• Experiment with concurrent thread operation, scheduling algorithms and other functions
• Analyze, test and revise wireless networking and cooperation between multiple robots
• Integrate concepts from many sub-disciplines in electrical and computer engineering: microcomputer interfacing and programming, analog and digital electronics, computer aided engineering, control, and communications
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