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Re: A new step in collaboration: FIRST Programmers' Guild

I don't have anything much to add here except for the "count me in" thing.

Regarding comments about code-sharing: I don't mind sharing my autonomous mode from this year as it's robot-specific dead reckoning. It's an ugly if-else cluster with a bunch of numbers that I fine-tuned on Thursday evening of the Chesapeake Regional (didn't have any time to do autonomous during build). The concept behind the code is moderately portable, but you'd have to change the PWM outputs and alter the various constants before it would work on your robot.

I'll also be talking to the guy who's going to be programming next year's Friarbot about this; his proposed autonomous code was a lot more method-oriented than mine (although it's never been tested).

Any way an IRC/AIM/MSN chat could be arranged? I won't be at nationals (my school seems to think that funding a new weight-training center is more important than robotics), and I'm not the only one in this thread that won't be. Anybody's welcome to stop into #Friarbot on irc.esper.net (and I'm on the Tigerbolt channel a lot), but we'd probably want some kind of more dedicated room for this.