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Originally Posted by sjspry
If there's any match timers, like said above, that denote 10s, etc, you could have someone hit a button for each one and collate them (as in, you know they should be 5s apart, either take their median as the 7.5s mark, or do something similar but modify the countdown you've been doing all along).
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This is probably a bad idea. The best case scenario here is that you end up exactly the same as a manual deployment. In addition you will be distracting one of your two drivers to try and hit a button when they should probably be doing something else.
The worst case is that the button is not hit and your minibot doesn't deploy or is hit accidentally and deploys early.
Eagle, if you mean your coach will tell the driver when to lineup for deployment I agree. If you are going to add a second persons reaction time into your loop for the deployment itself I would not do that if I could possibly help it. Average human reaction time is around 200ms, adding the time it would take the coach to verbalize the command means that your minibot is probably a half second or more behind.