All sensors produce electrical signals that are either of these two possible signal types.
What is Analog and Digital?
100
This is the proper name for the base 2 number system.
What is BINARY?
100
These are the names for both types of Easy-C projects.
What is Standalone and Competition?
100
This is another name for a socket head screw.
What is Allen?
100
To get a motor to stop, you program this number as its speed setting.
What is Zero?
200
The frequency of the proximity sensor is in the ______range of available frequencies.
What is Ultrasonic?
200
This is the name for a grouping of 8 bits of binary data.
What is a BYTE?
200
This type of control system has no feedback and the robot does not communicate information back to the Easy-C program.
What is Open Loop system?
200
This is the power source for the Cortex controller.
What is a Battery?
200
To get a motor to run as fast as possible, regardless of direction, you will need to use this number.
What is 127?
300
This is the name of the location where the information received from any sensor must be stored.
What is a Variable? (Variable Name)
300
This is the name for the integrated circuits used to process or manipulate digital inputs and producing digital outputs.
What are Logic gates?
300
This is the name of the process where the source code is converted into an executable file that will run the robot.
What is Compile? (AKA Build and Download)
300
This is the name of the cable that connects the computer to the Cortex controller.
What is the USB cable?
300
These are the only two motor ports available on the controller module that can drive a two-wire motor directly.
What are ports number 1 and 10?
400
This is the type of electrical signal that a shaft encoder sends to the VEX controller.
What is Digital?
400
This is the amount of unique decimal numbers you can represent using 8 bits.
What is 256?
400
This Easy-C window allows you to test your motors on-screen while the controller is connected directly to the laptop.
What is the Online Window?
400
There must always be a matched pair of these units installed in every robot/joystick system.
What are Wireless Keys?
400
To increase the torque or speed of a drive motor, you can do this to your robot chassis design.
What is add additional gearing.
500
This word describes the use of 2 encoder wheels to determine CW and CCW rotation in a shaft encoder sensor.
What is Quadrature?
500
This is the largest decimal number you can represent using 8 bits.
What is 255?
500
When having trouble with a controller based project, the best method to restore your controller back to its original operational condition is to do this task.
What is download the Easy-C default code?
500
This small object can be plugged into or removed from the Vex controller port to modify the operation of a program.
What is a Jumper?
500
This is the name for the process used to control drive motor speeds by manipulating the duration of square waves driving the motor.