Re: Follow up: How is your auton?
 

We had a lot of trouble making our autonomous work and we did not have much time to test.

But we have a GUI program that can create the code so that our autonomous mode can be easily changed.

We can cap a goal with the born tetra.

We had some trouble with the mechanics guys, they told us that the Encoders would never spin at more then 300 RPM, but they were wrong and told us that before all of our encoders were not working anymore, and since we live in Brazil we couldn't buy and find any other Encoders, so we're using the Hall Effect sensors to replace our encoder. It helps, but it's not as good as the Encoder :(

Re: Follow up: How is your auton?
 

Our autonomous can locate, drive to, pick up, and deliver to the center goal several of the vision tetras (one per match, unfortunately) and do it semi-reliably within the 15 seconds.

If you drop an e-mail to ldeffenb@yahoo.com, I'll send you back a .torrent file that will provide a pair of short video clips proving said claims.

Lynn (D) - Team Voltage 386 Software

PS. For a BitTorrent client, see www.BitTorrent.com or www.BitTornado.com (Windoze).

Re: Follow up: How is your auton?
 

I am the only programmer on my team. I came in 2 weeks before the shipping date. We don't have any encoders, sensors, or anything. It is all dead reckoning.

I got the code to knock the tetra down and then just sit there. I decided not to even bother with grabbing the vision tetra because it's almost impossible for our bot to pick a tetra up off the ground...

Re: Follow up: How is your auton?
 

Ours operates in 4 modes:
1: Knock left tetra down
2: Knock right tetra down
3: Fly to distance == 2nd autoloader, and deploy
4: Cap any goal we please
5: Do nothing