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Um, I smell Motor!
AKA: Scott McBride
FRC #2137 (TORC)
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Re: When did FIRST click to you?

Coming from FLL, and being a controls engineer, I was kind of depressed my first year in FRC, with my son as a freshman, as to how much programming didn't mean to the game. In FLL you had 2:30 of Auto, in FRC you got 15 seconds, almost seemed why bother.

Logomotion week 1 at Kettering.

We had an line following ubertube program, that used an ultrasonic to stop at a distance from the wall, dropped and backed up. When we tested it a Kettering the diamond plate of the wall was giving us all of these erroneous readings. New to Labview, I did not know of all of the commands to filter, avg. etc. so we were on the practice field testing, and I finally gave up and said, screw it, put in a timer. This was after talking to the team the last 3 weeks about how a timer was not the solution, we needed to sense the stop position. So we tested the time, made adjustments, found about 9 seconds was right, and went to play our first match.

We hung the UBERTUBE, the programmers were jumping around like crazy, I screamed so loud and long, I almost passed out.

I then got to watch the Killer Bees, do two tube ubertubes auto, Wow.

Killer Bees, made us their first pick, and we took home our first blue banner the next day.

But that first ubertube was it, and the son's and programmers reaction.

Son just started his Junior year in college, I still participate with the team. Like Dean says, we never leave. . .
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