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Originally Posted by tim-tim
@ Tytus - thank you! I was able to watch a lot of the webcast today. They seemed a little jittery at times, but eventually found their groove. I was told they did not have a lot of practice time this year.
I just hope they fixed the motor issue they had today. Also, any word on the statu of their deployment mechanism?
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what you saw was the result of running a robot that had not ever been tested. the matches were our first real testbed. practice was not too much an issue. our preset positions had not been calibrated, and some sensors had not been set up right, which resulted in the jittering you saw. by tomorrow morning it should be running perfect with a only a few tweaks left to complete.
tower rotate was fixed by switching out the fischer price for a 775 and modifying software. we expected it to burn out that match, we just didn't know how long it would last.
and deployment is working well, except for the one time we forgot to reset the minibot