ROBOTC for Arduino Public BETA Released!
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Just in time for summer, the ROBOTC dev-team has released the first Public BETA of “ROBOTC for Arduino”. The Arduino is a cool, low-cost embedded controller board that is great for learning the basics of robotics, electronics and creative engineering. The new version of ROBOTC has support for all of the popular official Arduino boards – Diecimila, Duemilanove, Uno, MEGA 1280 and MEGA 2560. |
Announcing ROBOTC’s New Support Wiki!
Over the past few months, the ROBOTC Development team has been updating all of the ROBOTC documentation and moving it to our new ROBOTC Wiki website. This new Wiki will contain a full in-depth function reference for all ROBOTC platforms. The eventual goal is to have the Wiki be the central location for all ROBOTC documentation. |
New Virtual World: The Ruins of Atlantis!
Robotics in Africa
We came across an article about a great initiative that’s happening in Africa. A program called AFRON, or the African Robotics Network, is “aiming to mobilize a community of institutions and individuals working on robotics-related areas, strengthening communication and collaboration among them.” You can read more about AFRON by clicking on the following link: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/african-robotics-network |
Bucket ‘o’ Bricks Brick Sorter
NeXT-Generation, over on the ROBOTC forums, posted a very cool project he’s been working on for the last two months. It’s an automated brick sorter made with a combination of Mindstorms NXT, Power Functions and Pneumatics. The video might be long but it’s well worth watching! Naturally, we asked him questions about his creation: What motivated you to make this? |
Full Set of Possible Characters for VEX LCD
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Full credit for the work behind this post goes to ROBOTC user Matthieu V. Thanks Matthieu! The VEX LCD is a fantastic tool, allowing you to display messages and values on the robot with very little effort. Some programmers even use a combination of the screen and input buttons to create a basic user interface on their robots – allowing them to … |
LIVE pictures and videos from 2012 FIRST World Championships in St. Louis
We’ll be continually updating this blog post to put up any awesome videos we grab from the 2012 FIRST World Championship in St. Louis. Check out our Facebook Gallery as we update it! |
Neat video of an NXT game made in ROBOTC
Here’s a neat video we found of a user who made a Pong or Brick Breaker type game in ROBOTC. |
NEW! VEX Speaker module and ROBOTC Support
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Got a new VEX Speaker? VEX Robotics just announced (and released) their new Speaker accessory for the VEX Cortex Microcontroller. This cool new speaker will allow you to play tones, sounds and wave (.wav) sound files from your VEX Cortex. |
New ROBOTC Firmware for VEX Cortex Users with Integrated Motor Encoders
There have been reports of the VEX Cortex locking up when using the new Integrated Motor Encoders. The root cause appears to be an unhandled exception that is generated when the I2C communication link between the Cortex and encoders is compromised. To prevent the Cortex from locking up, we’ve put together a new ROBOTC Firmware file that handles the exception. The differences between this new firmware and the version included in ROBOTC … |





