010 getting started

Put the robot’s code on your laptop and build it.

There are two computers. One is inside the REV Control Hub, on the robot. The other is your laptop. It runs Windows, macOS or Ubuntu, and you write the program on it.

Android Studio is an IDE. That is short for Integrated Development Environment. You write the robot’s program in it, in Java. Then it puts the program on the robot’s computer. The program tells that computer what numbers to work out. It also says where to put them.

AdvantageScope is a scope, as in telescope or microscope. It shows the numbers inside the running program.

Use the lesson for your computer: