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Re: Autonomus timed tasks

All three of these options are workable solutions to the task at hand.
I'll acknowledge, as Joe pointed out, that a state machine may not be the most convenient way, but depending on how you trigger state changes, it is actually a very useful and effective way to program autonomous. In fact, last year we had four different autonomous modes, each was it's own state machine. It worked great.

Joe's suggestion to follow the "Step 5 - Turn on Autonomous Mode" on FRCMastery.com is an excellent and simple way to make autonomous work.
Alan's suggestion to use a Flat Sequence is almost exactly the same approach as the timed loops show in Joe's suggestion, just implemented a slightly different way.

Learn all three methods and you will be prepared for almost any Autonomous challenge, and many other challenges as well.
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