[RufflesRidge]

If all you need to do is drive straight and operate a bridge mechanism (and your robot drives fairly straight on its own over the appropriate distance) the Kinect may not be a bad choice.

You can use the Dashboard to verify that you have the FRC Kinect Server configured and running properly without using up any of your unbag time.

You could set up the scoring to run autonomously and ignore the Kinect, then after it completes use 1 arm of the Kinect stick to control the power of an Arcade Drive function to drive to the bridge and use the other arm or a leg gesture for the bridge. I saw a number of teams this weekend accidentally ram into the bridge using their "full auto" modes and tip the balls the other way. This would also allow you to "abort" if someone else beats you to the bridge, instead of potentially tipping over if they are stronger at pushing it down.

You may be able prepare both the "full auto" version and the Kinect code and quickly test the repeatability of the "full auto" version towards the beginning of the unbag time (at this point you don't care if the distance is correct, only if it's repeatable). If it seems good enough, spend the time dialing in the distance/time, if not spend the time practicing with the Kinect.