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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
Toggling buttons are often a very poor way to control something. If you don't have an immediately obvious indication of which state it's in, you might turn it off when you want to turn it on, or vice versa.
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Originally Posted by CENTURION
That's a good point. Though couldn't you build an indicator light into the driver's station or control software?
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The drivers' attention isn't on the operator console, but an indicator light on the robot itself could work.
There's a light strip in the TechnoKats' shooter that indicates when the wheels are spinning and when they're up to speed. Our team programmers also put in some fancy software this year to flash the underglow LEDs for status feedback. So far, however, the LEDs haven't been installed.