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Re: Communicating with the FEEDERs/HP

I've been thinking about this issue for a little while and i've only come up with3 solutions.

1.) have lights on robot to indicate desired tube

2.) have signs or flags held by strategist/analyst

3.) predetermine what feeder slots robots go to and in what order tubes are recieved.

number 3 isn't so out of the question. if robot 1 on your alliance goes to the left feeder slot and scores on the left scoring pegs while robots 2 and 3 go to the right feeder slot and 2 scores on the top right pegs and 3 scores on the middle right pegs... or 3 can play defense while 1 scores on the left and 2 scores on the right... your human players can just give them a triangle, then a circle, then a square...

the only reason i see that you'd need lights or signs is if all 3 robots are trying to coordinate scoring on the fly. robot 1 puts a triangle and a square on top right logo and robot 3 puts the circle. robot 2 puts circle and square on top left, robot 3 puts the triangle...