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Small cheap encoder $4.99 that we might use on the control panel

Custom I/O for the 2015 FRC and forward. You can use to create driver station controls like switches, buttons, encoders, etc.

Absolute position encoder that would work on the control panel to create a rotational angle input to the driver station. Everything is in the package and would be very easy to implement. Just a knob.

Page that speaks about a programming method. The best feature of this method is that the design supports having the robot doing multiple things at once. Should be a big help in our performance at the challenges. What is Command based programming? WPILib supports a method of writing programs called "Command based programming". Command based programming is a design pattern to help you organize your robot programs. Some of the characteristics of robot programs that might be different from other desktop programs are: Activities happen over time, for example a sequence of steps to shoot a Frisbee or raise an elevator and place a tube on a goal. These activities occur concurrently, that is it might be desirable for an elevator, wrist and gripper to all be moving into a pickup position at the same time to increase robot performance. It is desirable to test the robot mechanisms and activities each individually to help debug your robot. Often the program needs to be augmented with additional autonomous programs at the last minute, perhaps at competitions, so easily extendable code is important. Command based programming supports all these goals easily to make the robot program much simpler than using some less structured technique.

Forum provided by NI to answer all sorts of questions about product that are used in the First(FRC) challenge.

This page describes the process of downloading the Java/Netbeans development enviroment as well as the process to get the FRC Netbeans plugin installed.

Lots of links to hardware and software for the 2014 challenge.