Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
What is FIRST®
FIRST Robotics is a great opportunity for our ten home schools to come together as a team to construct a robot. Multiple trade shops and mentors(Teachers, College Professors, College students and Professionals) work together to complete a project, meet deadlines and work together. The Mentors help us coordinate our efforts as a single cohesive unit in a real-world project with deadlines, design issues and problem solving situations for a completed project. While working as a group of people to make the best product available. Mentors help guide us to reach our full potential in the FIRST Robotics event. We have community support from J.C.Penney and The Heinz foundation as our sponsors in the FIRST Robotics Event. With this support in the community we feel obliged to do our absolute best in the FIRST Robotics Event. FIRST Robotics also has many colleges and universities, professional associations, and corporations that offer college scholarships to high school students on FIRST teams, allowing students to be able to use what they learned in FIRST apply their knowledge to college or a job. See more about scholarships here at http://www.usfirst.org/aboutus/scholarships. FIRST Robotics has many different sections in which many different challenges and ages groups compete. They are as followed:
Overall
Reach - All Programs Combined (projected for the 2012/13 season)
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303,000+ students
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29,200+ teams
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25,000+ robots
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56,500+ Mentors/adult
supporters
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64,000+ other Volunteers (e.g.
events Volunteers, Operational and Affiliate Partners)
See breakdowns by individual program below (projections for
2012/13 season).
2013 FIRST Robotics Competition
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2,548 teams
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50,960 high-school
students (Grades 9-12)
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58 Regional Events; 1 State
Championship; 1 Region Championship; 17 District Competitions
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FIRST Robotics
Competition Championship at the FIRST Championship
in St. Louis, MO, April 24-27, 2013
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Robots are built in 6 weeks
from a common kit of parts provided by FIRST, and typically weigh up to 150 lbs.
2012/13 FIRST Tech Challenge
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2,500 teams
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25,000 high-school students
(Grades 7-12)
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100+ Qualifying and
Championship Tournaments
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FIRST Tech
Challenge World Championship at the FIRST Championship in St. Louis, MO,April 24-27, 2013
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Robots are built using a
re-usable, modular robotics platform
2012/13 FIRST LEGO League
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20,500 teams
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205,000 children (Grades 4-8)
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From 60+ countries
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814
Qualifying Tournaments; 124+ Championship Tournaments
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FIRST LEGO
League World Festival at the FIRST Championship in St. Louis, MO, April 24-27, 2013
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Autonomous robots are built
using LEGO MINDSTORMS technologies
2012/13 Junior FIRST LEGO League
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3,700 teams
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22,200 kids, ages 6 to 9 (Grades
K-3)
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100+ Jr.FLL Expos
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Participants design and
construct a model using LEGO bricks and moving parts and present their research
journey on a poster
In all FIRST robotics is a great opportunity for students
to have fun and enjoy working with friends along with other teams to compete
with each other in a great event that builds sportsmanship,
teamwork, and real life situation.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
About Labview 2011
Lab view 2011
System Requirements
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Run-Time Engine
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Development Environment
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Processor
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Pentium III/Celeron 866 MHz or equivalent
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Pentium 4/M or equivalent
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RAM
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256 MB
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1 GB
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Screen Resolution
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1024 x 768 pixels
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1024 x 768 pixels
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Operating System
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Windows 7/Vista (32- and 64-bit)
Windows XP SP3 (32-bit)
Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit)
Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
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Windows 7/Vista (32- and 64-bit)
Windows XP SP3 (32-bit)
Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit)
Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
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Disk Space
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353 MB
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3.67 GB (includes default drivers
from NI Device Drivers DVD) |
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Mac OS X
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Run-Time Engine
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Development Environment
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Processor
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Intel-based processor
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Intel-based processor
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RAM
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256 MB
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1 GB
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Screen Resolution
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1024 x 768 pixels
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1024 x 768 pixels
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Operating System
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Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6 or 10.7
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Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6 or 10.7
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Disk Space
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563 MB
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1.2 GB for the complete installation
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Linux
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Run-Time Engine
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Development Environment
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Processor
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Pentium III/Celeron 866 MHz or equivalent
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Pentium 4/M or equivalent
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RAM
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256 MB
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1 GB
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Screen Resolution
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1024 x 768 pixels
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1024 x 768 pixels
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Operating System
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Linux kernel 2.2.x, 2.4.x, 2.6.x, or 3.x for the
Intel x86 architecture, GNU C library (glibc) Version 2.4.4 or later
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop + Workstation 5
or later, open SUSE 11.4 or later, or Scientific Linux 6 or later
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Disk Space
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115 MB
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1.1 GB for the complete installation (excluding
drivers)
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Ups and downs about Java
Things Java Doesn’t Have.
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Doesn’t have
a preprocessor
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It doesn’t
support type defs, defines
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Doesn’t
support enums but it does support named constants
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Doesn’t
support multiple inheritance
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Doesn’t
support go to but go to is a reserved word
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Doesn’t
support operator overloading
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Doesn’t
support automatic type conversions (except where guaranteed safe)
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Performance: Java can be perceived as significantly slower
and more memory-consuming than natively compiled languages such as C or C++.
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Look and feel: The default look and feel of GUI
applications written in Java using the Swing toolkit is very different from
native applications. It is possible to specify a different look and feel
through the pluggable look and feel system of Swing.
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Single-paradigm language: Java is predominantly a
single-paradigm language. However, with the addition of static imports in Java
5.0 the procedural paradigm is better accommodated than in earlier versions of
Java.
Things Java have better.
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Object
handles (references) are automatically initialized to null.
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Handles are
checked before accessing and exceptions are thrown in the event of problems.
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You cannot
access an array of bonds
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JAVA offers a number of
advantages to developers.
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Java is simple: Java was
designed to be easy to use and is therefore easy to write, compile, debug, and
learn than other programming languages. The reason that why Java is much
simpler than C++ is because Java uses automatic memory allocation and garbage
collection where else C++ requires the programmer to allocate memory and to
collect garbage.
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Java object-oriented: Java
is object-oriented because programming in Java is centered on creating objects,
manipulating objects, and making objects work together. This allows you to
create modular programs and reusable code.
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Java is
platform-independent: One of the most significant advantages of Java is its
ability to move easily from one computer system to another.
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The ability to run the
same program on many different systems is crucial to World Wide Web software,
and Java succeeds at this by being platform-independent at both the source and
binary levels.
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Java is distributed:
Distributed computing involves several computers on a network working together.
Java is designed to make distributed computing easy with the networking
capability that is inherently integrated into it.
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Writing network programs
in Java is like sending and receiving data to and from a file. For example, the
diagram below shows three programs running on three different systems,
communicating with each other to perform a joint task.
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Java is interpreted: An
interpreter is needed in order to run Java programs. The programs are compiled
into Java Virtual Machine code called bytecode.
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The bytecode is machine
independent and is able to run on any machine that has a Java interpreter. With
Java, the program need only be compiled once, and the bytecode generated by the
Java compiler can run on any platform.
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Java is secure: Java is
one of the first programming languages to consider security as part of its
design. The Java language, compiler, interpreter, and runtime environment were
each developed with security in mind.
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Java is robust: Robust
means reliable and no programming language can really assure reliability. Java
puts a lot of emphasis on early checking for possible errors, as Java compilers
are able to detect many problems that would first show up during execution time
in other languages.
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Java is multithreaded:
Multithreaded is the capability for a program to perform several tasks
simultaneously within a program. In Java, multithreaded programming has been
smoothly integrated into it, while in other languages, operating
system-specific procedures have to be called in order to enable multithreading.
Multithreading is a necessity in visual and network programming.
C++ and Java have similar.
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Single
inheritance is similar to C++
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Both C++ and
Java support class C static/methods or functions can be called without the
requirements to and object of the class
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Statics
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Class
Functions
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Overloading
functions
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Applications
can call functions in another language.
Other Teams involved in our area
Southwestern PA
Allegheny County
117-The Steel Dragons-Taylor Allderdice High
School-Pittsburgh, PA
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1708-AMP’D-McKeesport Area High School and Technology-
Mckeesport, PA
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3062-Spartan Robotics-St. Joseph High School-Natrona
Heights, PA
3504-Girls of Steel-Field Robotics Center, CMU: The Ellis
School and Home School and Jeannette and Avonworth High School and Seneca
Valley Senior High School and PA Leadership Charter School and Pine Richland
and The University School and PA Cyber Charter and Winchester Thurston and
Upper St. Clair and Oakland Catholic-Pittsburgh, PA
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Armstrong and Butler
Counties
3962-Incognito Robotics-Armstrong County 4-H and Lenape
Technical School-Kittannning, PA
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4049-4-H Butler County-Butler, PA
4032-Washington County-4-H Robotics Club-4-H
County-Washington, PA
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4467-Peters Township Library Robotics Club-Peters Township
Library Robotics Club-Peters Township, PA
Westmoreland County
3955-Jcp 4-H Gears-Westmoreland 4-H Robotics Club, Penn
State Extension Westmoreland 4-H-Greensburg, PA
4150-FRobotics-Franklin Regional High School-Murrysville, PA
Cambria County
4547-Hilltoppers-Westmont Hilltop High School-Johnstown, PA
3567-The Aviators-United High School-Armagh, PA
Northwestern PA
Erie County
291-CIA-Creativity In Action-Erie School District-Erie,PA
306-CRT-Corry Area High School-Corry, PA
2544-HCRC-Harbor Creek School District-Haborcreek, PA
Clarion, Venango, and Jefferson Countries
3954-Jcp/4-H Electrotechs-4-H of Clarion/Venango
Countries-Emlenton, PA
3957-Jcp/4-H-4-H Clarion County and Redbank Valley School
District-New Bethlehem, PA
4031-JeffClear-4-H Jefferson County-Penn State-Brookville,
PA
4465-WC4-H-Warren County 4-H-Youngsville, PA
Central Pa
Centre and Franklin
Counties
4027-4-H Fatal Error-4-H Centre Co-State College, PA
4050-Franklin-Franklin County 4-H and Boys and Girls Club of
Chambersburg-Chambersburg, PA
4484-Clearfield Team 1-Penn State Extension in Clearfield
County-Clearfield, PA
4615-CMS Robotics-Chambersburg Area Career magnet
School-Chambersburg, PA
Out-of-State Teams
West Virginia
2614-MARS-Mountaineer Area Robotics and Mon County Board of
Education-Morgantown, WV
First Tech Challenge
Southwestern PA
3900-Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academ-Pittsburgh, PA
4149-Terabytes-Murrysville, PA
4933-City Charter High School-Pittsburgh, PA
5526-Gateway High School-Monroeville, PA
2874-Eden Christian Academy/Portersville Christian
School-Sewickley, PA
4148-The Kuhn-Coyne-Family/Geneva College and Eden Christian
Academy-Portersville, PA
4658-Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy-Pittsburgh,
PA
5317-Saint Alphonsus School-Wexford, PA
Northwestern PA
3869-GE Volunteers and Erie School District-Erie, PA
4050-Skynet Robotics Club-Erie, PA
4051-Erie, PA-Erie, PA
4052-Christian Robotics of Pennsylvania-Erie, PA
4065-Harborcreek Youth Services-Harborcreek, PA
4067-4-H Team Corry-Corry, PA
4068-Jefferson Elementary-Erie, PA
4293-Girls Scouts Western Pennsylvania-Meadville, PA
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