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Re: Team 5895 Code Release for 2016

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Originally Posted by AGPapa View Post
We wanted as many systems to be autonomous as possible, so the driver could focus on more important tasks than manually hitting a button to intake a ball. During a match you always want to pick up a ball if you don't have one, so the code just automates that away.
Being a driver myself, I can understand wanting to automate as much as you can. I can only imagine that leaving the intake on must have drained the battery. Did you ever have issues with brown out or severe voltage drops during competitions?
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