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Re: Vision Targeting for Aerial Assist 2014

That may be true, but what if a ball retrieving algorithm is more efficient time wise than a human doing it? First is about fostering the creativity and wonder about science, technology, math, and engineering in students (and mentors, I've seen a few mechanical mentors inspired by a program and then I see them playing around with ardiuno. You're never to old to learn, especially in a stem career). I personally would rather make a complex robot, learn a lot, and preform mid to bottom table than make a simple robot that relies on driver skill and makes it to eliminations. That's just me though. To each their own. My sophomore year I wrote my first program, the team's vision program. I finished it a week before our first regional and we had 5 days to implement it on our practice robot. We had communication issues to the field and maybe a short in our wiring somewhere to our shooter that prevented us from spinning our wheels to the appropriate speed. We didn't win any matches on our own. Our alliance partners won them for us. So the philosopher could argue that the program I wrote was for nothing. But it wasn't. I now am deciding between going to wash u or mit and studying computer science with an emphasis on computer vision (medical applications in mind). Because my team decided to do something complex and unique, it changed my life.
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