[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by RoBoTiCxLiNk

I probably shouldn't keep responding to people's posts but this has happened to me both years i've programmed. Last year was worse though, for breakaway, we literally finished building the robot AT the regional. And our programming team can't make demands such as robot completion dates, 1 person vs. an entire team of builders doesnt go over to well. I'm content with occasionally using the robots chassis for motor testing and et cetera, but the other 99% of the time I'm just experimenting with sensor algorithms and new driver stations and systems. If i had the robot 2 weeks prior to ship i could have a flawless auton. but the bot would be less than flawless so i let them take care of that. And its always the same nagging with getting it to work as soon as theyre done, dont you love it

On behalf of that mechanical part of the team - we're sorry. I used to be a programmer in competition, and it sucks getting the robot with 6 hours, or less, to code it.

One solution I've seen done before is a virtual robot model, but I have no idea how that works. Could someone explain that to me?