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Re: New Team Not Using Camera
Last year we were a rookie team, and we really did not see that much advantage to autonomous. When we actually went to the competition and saw the number of robots that actually had functional autonomous (that knocked the ball off the tee) we concluded that FIRST had not intended it to be that difficult. But when we got picked by another high placed rookie team for the finals, they sent one of their mentors over to help, and he showed us how to write a quick and simple program to drive forward and block another robot from knocking a ball off.
The Moral of the story is that Although the program didnt work perfectly, it still got us halfway down the field, which later allowed us to score 15-20 points we otherwise would not have.
However I do strongly recomend that unless you are on a finals aliance where you know your partners, you should definetly have an off switch for your autonomous program, so you dont risk interfering with your aliance members robots.
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