On April 18-21 we are heading to Houston, TX, USA for the 2018 FIRST Championship! Keep updated via our social media channels and blog.
Come and join us at one of our Robo Camp workshops! Held at three locations across the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Register on our website now!
The companies that support our team to run each season and are helping us promote a bright future for STEM in Australia.
Three levels of robot demos that we can accommodate are:
Potential future projects and initial point of contact for the off-season.
| Title | Category | Description | Initial point of contact | Who is interested? |
| Software Project Architecture | Software | Reorganisation code structure for more efficient reuse and speedier development. | Liam | |
| Scouting application | Software | Software for use at competition by IC. Likely mobile based client with web back end. Maybe open source for all teams? | TBA | |
| Multi Axis Arm | Hardware and Software | Two projects in one! Hardware project to design and construct the arm then software to get it under control! | TBA | |
| Workshop Code Project | Software | Software project to develop a gui / dashboard driven system to provide basic motor, actuator control plus electrical and pneumatic testing in the workshop with no compile or deployment of new code :). | TBA | |
| Robot in 3 hours | Hardware and software | Proposed project to enable us to visit new teams and get them going - hardware aspect is to define the tools and parts required and software to develop 3x out of the box projects (C++, Java and Labview). | TBA | |
| Pit structure | Hardware | Design, make or buy | TBA | |
| Robot Trolley 3.0 | Hardware | Recent trolley enhancements have demonstrated that we have been missing this huge creativity opportunity | TBA | |
| Control System Design Notes | Control | Notes to describe stuff that works plus preferred electrical and pneumatic components and solutions | Ian | |
| Develop image processing pipeline that can guide drive base toward target | Software | Use image processing to select Motion Profile Arc or Motion Magic Arc and drive robot to fully automate hatch loading from 2m. | Ian | |
| Investigate sensor suite | Control | Identify super set of sensors, sources, pricing and documentation for permitted FRC devices. For example, cameras, ultrasonic, lidar etc. | TBA | |
| Website review and rework | Business | Strategic review of website purposes and rework to suit. | Sara J |
Notes to describe the initial setup, importing an existing project, build and deployment of code to robot.
These instructions describe the software build of ICs five Lenovo Ideapad 100s PCs.
These notes describe the process we can use to establish a working build environment for FRC team 5584 projects for the 2019 season.
As we evolve as a team the software footprint increases in complexity. This article aims to provide a baseline of third-party software components (and the relevant versions for the current season). The versions listed here relate to the 2018 season (Jan 2018 +) and we can expect at least some of these to shift during the build season.
This year we are implementing a file management and version control system for our CAD models.
Here are some instructions on how to get your machine ready for the next build season: