[Alpha Beta]

Originally Posted by kenavt

I saw in some of your weekly videos you guys were practicing vision tracking discs, presumably for autonomous. Have/are you guys doing so now? And do you have any interesting electrical/programming features that wouldn't come out in this video?

We have vision code ready to go. So far we haven't needed it. The Pyramid discs are so close to our starting position that they are impossible to miss and the humans haven't had any difficulty aiming the robot at the center of the far discs. Distance isn't a factor either considering Q&A #429.

Lots of little features like a servo finger that holds the 2nd disk back in a double load so we don't jam and two tilting tusks that give the robot a new angle to hang from when extending our Sky Hook. Limit switch on the sky hook so the driver knows it has made a solid connection with the next level before pulling off the spring loaded hooks below. The shooter has 4 different angles, and every time it moves the Sky Hook and Ground Feed Mechanism both move momentarily to avoid mechanical interference... The devil is in the details as they say.

We are planning to have our 42 point autonomous code and auto climbing sequence on a poster in our pit.