The REC website says, “A bound quad-ruled notebook is the preferred format. Veteran teams and coaches generally recommend using some sort of bound composition book. You are unlikely to beat out another team for one of these awards sans engineering notebook judges want to see your team's thought process, project management, testing, iterations, etc. The most obvious award relying on the notebook is the Design Award, but the Build, Create, Innovate, Amaze, and Think awards all rely on the notebook as well. If a team works hard and has some luck on their side, they can rack up tournament champion and skills champion bling however, all judged awards will expect to see a high-quality engineering notebook for your team to really even be in the running. For a robotics team, it also serves as a way to transfer information between team members if Person A did something last week, but isn't here today, and Person B is picking it up now.įrom a trophy shelf-perspective, it's hard to win any trophies for said shelf without an engineering notebook.
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I wonder what the upgrade price from 3.6 to 4.Why do VEX teams need one? First, it's just a good idea that's why scientists and inventors throughout the ages have used them. I will evaluate this version over the next few days and see what else is working or broken.
I had discussed a potential solution to this with the developers last year, not sure if that was implemented or if they are even interested in adding that at this stage.
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The problem is that not the PID controller will have final say on the command value being sent to the motors and may not be able to be overridden by the current limiting code in the smart motor library. The PID control is going to break the smart motor library, I will look into this but there may not be much that can be done (except not using PID). They have also deprecated some functions which also cause lots of warnings, one or two of these may be a mistake, for example, bIfiRobotDisabled is deprecated but still used by Vex_Competition_Includes.c, probably just a mistake. Some functions have had their names changed, StartTask is now startTask, this causes all sorts of warnings with old code including the competition template. The preferences dialog is back to a single window. Again, I have not tried this yet but the functions are there. That is, if you want, for example, a four motor arcade drive using channels 2 and 3 on the joystick there will be a single function to do this. It looks like there will some functions for simple drive train control with joystick. Support for the old 3-wire motors also appears to have been dropped. Support for PIC dropped as expected (although there are many remnants of this still visible in the system include files). I have not tried any of this on real hardware yet, it was working reasonably well last year but, as usual with PID, careful tuning is needed. The PID control from last years beta release are now included, this is mostly for driving at a defined speed and also to a destination target. The main differences from V3.6 I see so far are as follows. Numerous other small bug fixes and enhancements (in depth change log coming soon!).Don’t allow overwrite with “sensorsNone”. (VEX IQ) Preserve “auto ID” sensor types for using sensors not defined in motors and sensors setup.Fixed issue with “Software Inspection” dialog overwriting the "last firmware downloaded filename.This has been updated so encoder reset occurs when program is started or terminated by the user (encoders are not reset when the program is suspended, only terminated). Encoders were being reset when program was stopped by the user, but not at the start of a new program.Support for the “%f” (float) formatting code for the VEX IQ LCD Display.
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