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Re: Who has last move in Auto setup?

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Originally Posted by inkling16 View Post
I am really hoping to see at least one team use the Kinect in the AUTO mode to be a wicked awesome goalie. Since previous games have had little interaction between robots in AUTO, there was never any huge need to do this, but a solid goalie with a human moving it around with the Kinect has the potential to be spectacular for this game.
Wicked awesome goalie is just what our team has set out to build .We are a rookie team and realized that if we did only one thing well and benefited the teams with more experience and money we might be a sought after commodity.
We have a blocking pole that can deploy to 112 inches in seconds and we also have blocking flaps that extend over the top and front of the low goal 19.5 inches to prevent top and front shots. We are having some trouble with the kinect programming as we are mounting 3 kinects on our bot to detect incoming balls from multiple angles and react to block. Has any team ever used multiple kinects in this way before that you have seen ? Our team is comprised of all programming students and we are programming in Java .
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