This year the robotics team is using The Finch for teaching the new programmers about programming.  The robot is cute and I know I’d want to play with it so I bought one too. While I like Eclipse better than NetBeans, the programming team uses NetBeans.  I decided to try out NetBeans with the Finch so [...]

WPILibJ is a library used for FIRST robotics code when programming in Java.  Helping the Stuypulse team gave me the opportunity to look at some of the code.  In honor of ship date this year, I decided to blog some thoughts on the library.  You can see the JavaDoc to follow along. Good design point [...]

In early January, I blogged about Getting my iPad ready for FIRST robotics season.  It’s now enough later to revisit that and see how things worked out. Overall, things have gone better than expected.  For the most part, the internet has been available making searching the internet easy. Gmail Now that I’m relying on the [...]