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Originally Posted by Bcahn836
I was just wondering what does your team do to get a headstart on next years competition?
We were thinking about developing a 4wd drive train using the chips, and try to get the most efficiency out of the motors.
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Yeah, I've been thinking about this too. Here is a list of stuff I've undertaken during the offseason.
*Recruit!!!
*Learn as much as possible about PIC programming, as I want to have quite a bit of extra processing done next year
*Buy/Research/Fiddle with Sensors
*Look for sponsors
*Make a small IR tracking robot, based on this years game. (I didn't get to do it this year, they forgot the parts when they shipped the kit
)
*Make a general purpose control box with a multitude of switches, knobs, etc.
*Research a new navigational system idea (not my own) that uses an optical mouse with an adjusted focal length to measure movement.
*Convince the tech-staff (who dislike me
) to let me reformat the laptop they gave the team and install linux!