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Re: Programming dumbed down even more.

Our programming team has found this also. So, in return, we have upped the challenge for this year for ourselves. As the drive code will take about a week we have set the following tasks for ourselves.
  • Add photogates to detect the ball in our arms, even when the drives view is blocked.
  • Use an angled piece of glass and a broken down SMART board to make a HUD for our drivers. With all these rules having indicators that they can see live will be needed
  • Attempt Kinetic intergration for firing. Track the gamepad being pushed forward for fire, and pulled at the body for the flywheels to power down
  • Add toggle switches on the robot to allow us to control what we do during auto, as it will change as the other teams do.
  • Attempt tracking of other robots, with color tracking to determine team. Project to HUD

I doubt they will all get done, or will be feasible. But they are fun challenges for us, and others, to try.