ROBOTC for IFI is available for use in the 2008 FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). ROBOTC for IFI is a C-based cross-platform programming language developed at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy for use on the IFI-FRC controller.
http://www.robotc.net/ifi/frc/
Need to download, installa and try!
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Re: Free ROBOTC for all 2008 FIRST Robotics Teams!
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Originally Posted by neutrino15
Is there any advantage of using robotc over "real" c? (IE mplab?)
Other than sheer simplicity, i suppose..
Yes. Somehow, the guys at NREC have figured out how to update the code on the controller without doing a full download. As such, you can make small adjustments to your code and download them to the robot for testing in just a couple of seconds, much faster than the traditional IFI Loader method. We haven't started our software development yet, but when we do, we will be using ROBOTC for that reason alone.
We are just about to start downloading it onto the computer. I will try to keep you posted on the status.
I just wanted to see if RobotC allows more flexible programming environment, for example to have #defines to replace the hardcoded constants in the code. Also, if the code for the robot would be in the form of the text files (.c files for example), it would be easier to setup version tracking.
We did not get very far with the RobotC we got it downloaded but need to get the activation code for it.
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