thanks for the help and tips. I'll have to look into state machines. Today I was in a kind of hurry (which was probably obvious). but now I've got more time to think things through. Our team doesn't really have any mentors for programming. We never have, last year we had a wiz kid, and this year its kinda up to me and another guy. neither of us have much experience. I programmed with c#, but that was with Windows, which tends to behave much differently than a robot
. our team number is, I'm not sure. we're team "lugnut" though, from Ohio.