[GeeTwo]

Thanks so much! I've been trying to drive exactly this message home this year. Maybe it'll sink in a bit more when it's coming from outside the team. Our lead programmer this year was also our driver last year, but I still don't think even he quite gets how much faster and easier it will be to use a semi-automated system as compared to manual operation from behind the alliance wall.

As far as the "manual backup mode", we intentionally wrote that first. This is because we needed to verify that the motors were actually doing what we expected, and set the appropriate inverted motors. We also did not yet have an array of sensors in place (we are at one camera, 9 limit switches, and four analogs presently; we will be moving one analog to I²C and another to an encoder (2 DIOs) this week on our practice 'bot to improve reliability. If you didn't already plan to do this in later blogs, you should also consider describing how to incorporate sensors into the semi-automation process. This may very well be the first time we've actually used any sensor other than the camera in operating our robot.