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Tetrix FTC. How to attach the ball storing pipe to the robot
Let's attach the ball storing pipe to the FTC robot. In previous tutorials, I've shown you the complete robot, but for this, I've removed the pipe and will show you how to attach it.
- #578
- 02 Jul 2017
Tetrix FTC. Cut a pipe with an opening with specific shape. User a template
Take the hacksaw, the drill and let's cut the pipe.
- #581
- 28 Jun 2017
Tetrix FTC. How to cut and prepare a pipe to store balls. Length and cap
In this robotics tutorial, we would discuss the length of the pipe and its dimensions. These are general considerations for every container on a FIRST Technical Challenge competition.
- #575
- 20 Jun 2017
Tetrix FTC. Tools and example for cutting a pipe
This robotics tutorial is about the different tools that you could use to collect the balls in a pipe on a FIRST Technical Challenge competition.
- #577
- 16 Jun 2017
Tetrix FTC. How to cut and prepare a pipe to store balls. Shape of the pipe
The robotics tutorial is about the shape of the pipe its advantages and disadvantages.
- #574
- 08 Jun 2017
Tetrix FTC. How to prepare a container to store balls and what should you buy
The tutorial is about what are the parts that you should buy to have the Ball Collecting mechanism.
- #573
- 29 May 2017
Tetrix FTC. How to store and empty a container with balls
The next challenge of the course is to build a container where you could store the balls (objects) that you are collecting. The first thing is to see how it works as an end result. You can use the same principle during FIRST Technical Challenge competitions. You can also fire the balls, just by rotating the axle in reverse.
- #572
- 26 May 2017
Tetrix FTC. Teacher's note about constructing an attachment for collecting balls.
In this robotics tutorial, we give a few notes for the teacher about adding an axle to the front of the FTC robot and attaching a plastic plate to this axle to make the robot collect balls.
- #571
- 23 May 2017
Tetrix FTC. Construct a ball collecting attachment - add a plastic plate
How to add a plastic plate to the FIRST Technical Challenge Robot build with Tetrix. The plastic plate is for collecting the balls. The plate should rotate and should be connected to the axle.
- #568
- 17 May 2017
Tetrix FTC. Construct a ball collecting attachment - rotation axle
How to construct an axle with a plastic plate connected to this axle and make this plate rotate and collect balls.
- #567
- 11 May 2017
Tetrix FTC. Modify the PushBot to collect balls
There are modifications that you must do on the FTC PushBot robot. Let's discuss them
- #566
- 08 May 2017
Tetrix Gamepads. Hand control with Gamepad bumpers
Control the hand of the FIRST Technical Challenge Push Bot robot with the GamePad bumpers.
- #520
- 07 May 2017
Tetrix Gamepads. Distance Sensor for a calm control of the robot Arm
By using the GamePad to control the arm with could lift it and return it back. The main problem with controlling the arm is that if you just use the motors you would hit the robot, bend the axles and breaks the gear wheels. We would use the distance sensor to make the arm move without hitting the robot.
- #519
- 02 May 2017
Tetrix Gamepads. Controlling robot arm with the Gamepad triggers
How to control the arm of the push bot using the two triggers on the GamePad of the FTC Push Bot?
- #521
- 27 Apr 2017
Tetrix Gamepads. Controlling the motors with two separate GamePad Sticks
In this tutorial, we are controlling the FTC Tetrix robot with the two sticks of the same GamePad. The left stick is for forward and backwards, while the right stick is for left and right.
- #517
- 21 Apr 2017
Tetrix Gamepads. Simple program for moving the robot with the gamepads
In this tutorial, we would build a simple program for controlling the Tetrix robot motors with the GamePads. We use the stick and when the stick is pushed forward the motors move forward. When it is pushed backwards the robot moves backwards.
- #515
- 15 Apr 2017
Connect Tetrix Gamepads to the Motorola phones
In this tutorial, we connect the Motorola phones to the Tetrix controller using the USB hub.
- #514
- 12 Apr 2017
Introduction to Tetrix GamePad control programming
We start with FIRST Technical Challenge and how you develop programs with the GamePads. It is up to you to decide how sticks, buttons and triggers from the GamePad will control the different motors of the robot and there are different decisions that you should make.
- #513
- 09 Apr 2017