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Re: 95's Pre-season drive base done!

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Originally Posted by DAlden View Post
Hello, I am Daroc Alden.
My coach requested that everyone create an introductory post here, so here I am. I didn't work on the drive base itself, as I programmed the preseason robot. It is pretty simple; it just puts the right and left sticks directly into tank drive and uses the encoders to automatically shift gears. We're using java and the iterative robot template, so a lot of the work was done for us.
Don't sell yourself short -- as I'm fond of saying, without programmers, robots would just be expensive paperweights.

What was your thought process behind your autoshifting algorithm? Are you using the encoders to predict the current draw of the motors, and trying to minimize that, or are you trying to maximize your acceleration?

Great work 95!
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