Firebears Programming 1.19.17
2016/2017 FireBears Team Photo
Category: Programming
Programming writes the code to make our robot function and move.
Arduino Programming
This Fall we’ll be using Arduino microcontrollers to teach programming and also to cross-train with the electrical subteam. Microcontrollers are small computers that are well suited to electrical hacking. We’ll be writing little Arduino programs in C++, which is similar to the Java programming language …
Rockin’ Robot
On a Friday in January after moving into our new location at the mall, our programming team figured out how to control last years robot with a guitar-shaped controller, known for its use in popular video games. After we learned …
Computer Benchmarks
Recently we worked on a Java benchmark program to measure the relative speeds of our computers. The program finds prime numbers, and will print out how many milliseconds were required to find the millionth prime. We all have a good …