2019 FIRST Robotics Destination: Deep Space robot for Team 5577 (Kinematic Wolves of Detroit Cristo Rey High School, working within DHDC/RECD)
- Valentina Tereshkova was a Soviet cosmonaut and the first woman in space, on theme for this year's game, and a celebration of women in STEM.
- Valentina hot sauce is amazing. Only somewhat related.
- 📐 CTRE magnetic encoder–based PID control for the intake arm mechanism and the elevator mechanism. We're able to measure angles and heights fairly precisely, and move these mechanisms to desired setpoints. A major shout out to Ted of Team 4680 (AzTech Eagles of César Chávez Academy in Detroit, MI, also working within DHDC/RECD) for the idea behind this PID control scheme.
- 🏑 Shuffleboard display of angle, height, and encoder count information. This was super handy for debugging encoder measurements even while the robot was disabled.
- 🎮 Joystick and D-pad buttons! We've wanted these in our control scheme for years, and we finally got these buttons working as input! A big thanks to Team 1675 (UPS (Ultimate Protection Squad) of Milwaukee, WI) for the code example for
DPadButton, and to Team 2168 (Aluminum Falcons of Fitch High School in Groton, CT) for the code example forJoystickAnalogButton!