[ChrisA]

i like the whole idea personally. it would be a good challenge. i was hoping my team could do some autonomy this year but we never did. for my team this year was a heavy coding year. those who have seen our 2001 robot, there wasnt much code to it at all. same with 2000 too. this year we had a ton of awesome programming in the robot. we ended up using up 4 banks of memory after all the coding. next year is going to be a nightmare if my team has to do any more programming than this year. our team always seems to run short on programmers. this year there were 3 of us. (1 was an engineer) going into next year were looking for people on our team that we can recruit to join the 2 of us that are left. not that i dont think the 2 of us can handle it but its still a lot of work and 3 heads are better than 2.

as for sensor type stuff i wouldnt mind seeing some more cool sensors. my team didnt use a whole lot of sensors (basically 2 pots and a limit switch), but we had some pretty cool programming with em. we almost had a finalized code for using 4 hot swappable pots for our crab drive system. that woulda been cool but we were limited on testing time and on coding time. that and we had other things that the team wanted. we almost had a gyro on the robot that would keep the robot heading straight at the start of the match but we couldnt get the numbers quite right and were limited on weight.