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Re: Programmers on the Drive Team

While I am not a programmer I was the driver on my team from 2013-2014.

In addition to the button that slowed down the overall speed of the robot (I used 1/3, but it can be slowed down to a number of different variants, whatever works for you really) I also had 2 buttons that would slowly turn the robot left or right, but still allow you to drive full speed, this helped with lining up for the high goal/3 pt. goal in 2013 & 2014.

In terms of ease of driving I had another 2 buttons that would spin the robot 180 degrees either left or right, holding the stick forward while doing this would allow the robot to drive around a radius. And lastly there was a button on my controller that would flip the axis of robot, so now driving with the back end of my robot was like driving forwards and vice versa.

These buttons might not be necessary to every robot because it definitely depends on your strategy of the game and robot design but for us it made sense. That being said the more the season went on I found myself using these buttons less and less and eventually stopped using them altogether.
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