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Originally Posted by dlavery
Wow! You mean that simple little boxes on wheels, that can't do anything else in the autonomous period except drive around (which they can do just by building the kitbot), might actually be able to play a very important role by protecting their vision-tetra-capping-capable alliance partners from opposing onslaughts?!!? Just drive really fast from the starting position to one of the two "channels" between the middle goals, and patrol there, block the opponents efforts to disrupt the alliance, and enable your alliance to score points during autonomous! And maybe if the simple little box on wheel teams wasn't "quite there" with their autonomous software, a vision-tetra-capping-capable alliance partner that wanted them to fulfill that role might even be able to just give them the simple autonomous routine that they needed while they were at the competition! That seems like a pretty cool idea! Who'da thunk o' dat?!  |
I think that is really wishful thinking. Last year, my team was almost always the most friendly and willing to interact out of all the teams we played with. There were numerous oppurtunities where we could have benefitted (and vice versa) from people from other teams helping with software, yet very little happened. One programmer from another team did help out a bit, but the code he gave us was mostly useless because we decided it was too risky to try it without testing it.
Sure teams can lend each other spare parts and give each other advice, but I think its pretty unlikely that you will see many teams reporgramming other teams bots in the 1/2 hour or so that they have to prepare for matches.