Training overview

Unit 0: Android Studio

Kevin?

• How to install it
• How to configure it with the right SDK
• How to connect to the bot
• How to deploy/diagnose stuff

Unit 1: The Basics (TeleOp)

A: Hardware Overview

Malcolm, Adhitya, or RyanTi

Raw FTC functions:

• Motors (Encoders and no encoders)
• Servos
• Sensors
  • Bump
  • Distance
  • Color
  • IMU
• Controllers

B: Drive Base

RyanTa

Controls & motors:

• Tank drive (2 motors)
  • Show a few different ways to control the tank:
  • Two Sticks (Easiest: wire the Y value to the motor power from each stick)
  • Triggers with a reverse button
  • Stick + trigger (stick is 'steer' trigger is 'gas')
• Add 4 motor Tank drive

(Bonus piece is Mecanum/XDrive: for later - lots of math!)

C: Using Sensors/IMU

RyanTi

Drive to wall (bump) Drive to wall (distance) Drive to stripe Drive to corner (IMU!)

D: Using Servos

Roy

Continuous Rotation Servos Positional Servos How to program servos Knock over an object beside the bot as an example?

Unit 2: Autonomous

A: Making an auto opmode

Stringing your tasks together:

• Detect something
• Drive somewhere
• Do something

Bonus: PID Drive! (Kevin & RyanTi both want to work on this)

B: Red/Blue and Left/Right position

(Just a thing about naming, yeah?)

C: Tasks/Capabilities

I don't know if we want to go into this too much here. It's definitely helpful, but I'd rather we spent time on TechnoLib/FTCLib instead...

D: Vision

It's just a fancy sensor!

OpenCV

• Camera preview
• Bitmaps
• Matrices
• Color space conversion
• "Watching" Regions

Gotcha:

Don't try to use OpenCV types in static fields/methods! (Java has Static Initialization Order Fiasco, too!!!) It can cause your robot to crash during startup, before anything even seems to have run!

Unit 3: Libraries

A: RoadRunner

• Making your auto easier

B: TechnoLib (Maybe migrate to FTC Lib?)

• Subsystems
• Commands
• Decisions
• Logging
• other stuff...

C: FTCDashboard

Any other libraries worth calling out here?

Unit 4: Source Control/GitHub

• Commit is kinda like "Save"
• Push is "Share"
• Pull is "accept shared stuff"
• Merge vs. Rebase -> I'm sorry, ask your mentor to help, cuz this is messy and overly complicated. Git truly is the VHS of source control systems...