Team 1114 Planned Seminars/Demos

[Karthik Kanagasabapathy]

Greetings Teams,

Below is a list of all the seminars and demos Team 1114 is planning on holding in regards to the new control system. We look forward to meeting with all of you and answering your questions.

Cheers!

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Title: Training Session
Date: Saturday, Nov 8
Location: Governor Simcoe Secondary, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Address: 15 Glenview Ave., St. Catharines, Onatario, Canada (Map)
Time: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Notes: Full day training session

Title: Q & A / Display Booth (PENDING)
Date: Saturday, Nov 22
Location: Woburn CI, Toronto, Ontario
Address: 2222,Ellesmere Rd., Toronto, Onatrio, Canada (Map)
Time: 9:30 am to 3:00 pm, followed by a more formal session after the event closing ceremonies
Notes: Beta Test Team members will operate booth to answer any questions during a local robotics tournament. (Pending approval of organizing committee.)

Title: Q & A / Display Booth
Date: Saturday, Dec 13
Location: Governor Simcoe Secondary, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Address: 15 Glenview Ave., St. Catharines, Onatario, Canada (Map)
Time: 9:30 am to 3:00 pm, followed by a more formal session after the event closing ceremonies
Notes: Beta Test Team members will operate booth to answer any questions during a local robotics tournament.

Title: Q & A / Hands On Session
Date: TBD (Possible dates: Dec 14, Dec 20, or Jan 2)
Location: Governor Simcoe Secondary, St. Catharines, Ontario
Address: 15 Glenview Ave., St. Catharines, Onatario, Canada (Map)
Time: TBD
Notes: A chance for teams to bring their control systems installed on a robot for hands on tutoring and assistance before the beginning of the season. Date to be determined based on distribution of control systems to teams.

Title: Q & A / Display Booth at Regional FRC Kickoff Event (PENDING)
Date: Saturday, January 3/2009
Location: Ontario Science Centre
Address: 770 Don Mills Rd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Map)
Time: 8:30 am to 1:30 pm
Notes: Provide an opportunity for teams to ask any questions just as the season starts.

[Michael DiRamio]

Could all teams planning to attend the November 8th workshop please RSVP to frc1114.betatest@gmail.com.

Please include your team number, a contact name, and the number of people that will be attending.

Thanks,
Michael DiRamio
FRC1114

[Karthik Kanagasabapathy]

You can find all the presentation materials from our seminars, along with all code developed by 1114 during the Beta Test at: http://www.simbotics.org/controls.

[Karthik Kanagasabapathy]

Here are links to videos of the most pertinent sessions from our Control System Seminar. Thanks once again to Robert Mah for taping and uploading these videos.

Comparing C and C++:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA2F3ICYZ4Y

Introduction to C++ for FRC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Jc6zNNvQA (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OgKKqKQq0M (Part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC2L9EBSeJs (Part 3)

Introduction to PID for FRC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug5SsnuOny8 (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ACdor63ws (Part 2)

The slides and code which are featured in these videos can be found at: http://www.simbotics.org/controls. These links will be placed on that site as soon as our website team has a chance to update the page.

We have not included the LabVIEW sessions, as there are variety of better LabVIEW resources provided on the web.

Again, if there are any questions about the content of these presentations and/or slides, please let us know. We're more than willing to help.

[dMO]

Is team 1114 hosting the Hands on Session?