[GilaMonsterAlex]

3785 doesn't use to many sensors. This year we tried to implement a gyro to sense the angle of our shooter, and the camera for distance to run some simple calculations to be able to shoot for the 3pt goal easily and reliably but the processing caused our robot to lag. So we went the mechanical route, and had great success.

Since it's our 3rd year, I think we're progressing naturally in our abilities due to experience. But at the end of the day we need a robot that works, and we'd rather have a robot that can play the game well with manual driver controls, than one that marginally works but does so semi-automatically.

I will say that this year we grouped operations together so that one button would perform two tasks. We used timing to perform the operations correctly. I think as long as you keep trying to push the envelope, you're going in the correct direction. Whether you implement the actions or not are a team decision.