Re: how much time to Program
 

Once we got our robot all completed I got about 5 minutes with it. Lets just say that I was not able to finish.

Re: how much time to Program
 

By day 5, we had a testbed frame made using the kitbot frame, but we didn't have mecanum wheels until maybe week 4. By week 2, we had gotten the other 2 motors and we wrote our mecanum code. We weren't driving with mecanum on ANY frame until maybe halfway through week 5 though. As for autonomous.... well.... that's what Wednesday night in the hotel is for.

I think the universal answer to "how much time do you have to program?" is "not enough!":p

Re: how much time to Program
 

We had the practice robot complete about 10 days before ship and about 4 hours of time on the real robot. Because of the practice robot, we also had all the fix-it-windows available for programming.

Re: how much time to Program
 

One thing you can do is to try to reuse as much code as possible. Over the years, teams tend to develop mechanisms that they reuse to some extent. Do the same with your code.

Like for autonomous. I pulled architecture I wrote in pre-season 2006 but didn't use then. After I got that integrated and working, I was able to write new dead-recon based autonomous modes rapidly.

How much time did I have? Not much on a real robot. But because of the simplicity and my ability to code and debug off a robot, when I got it loaded, it worked like a charm (at least as much as can be expected).

Too simple for me, though. (Give me a gyro! Give me encoders! Give me something nicer than 3 pots and a limit switch!)

Re: how much time to Program
 

I didn't think you were supposed to reuse code, though I guess you could have someone retype it word for word. *shrug*

Re: how much time to Program
 

We have lots of time, because we work on the parts that involve the program first. Not to mention we have Chris Hibner to help us.