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Re: On the quality and complexity of software within FRC

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Originally Posted by GeeTwo View Post
I do not consider canburgling as an auto task, but I can see the point - it was a scarce worm that went to the early bird. The two reasons not were that it was not rewarded directly because it was autonomous, and (more importantly) most of the canburglar programming was a single actuator with no sensor feedback. That is, it was best solved as a mechanical problem, not an automation problem.
Programming spent hours tuning our canburglars to be the fastest they could possibly be, and still be accurate. At FiM Livonia we probably won the can battle against 503 because they had a programming issue that caused theirs to be deployed a quarter second slower then they should.
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