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Re: Suggestions | Program challenges for a better robot

1) Add gyro control for driving straight
2) Making your autonomous more advanced. Say, a three ball auto, even if it takes more than 10 seconds (this is for practics afterall)
3) Add automation to your robot

To give you an example, we still have our Rebound Rumble robot. A few of us are thinking about fully automating it, which wouldn't require much given what we did with it in 2012, to give a demonstration. Basically, the robot can automaticall do the following
1) Adjust the shooter based on distance
2) Target the hoop
3) Find distance to the hoop
4) Object distance detection (of balls, ideally)
5) Manage balls in inventory to limit itself to 3 (per 2012 rules)

To add: Obstacle avoidance and ball detection
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