[EricH]

Thank you for bringing this out into the forums and, hopefully, to people's attention.

Incidentally, we still have to carry an LED flasher for diagnostic purposes. Now, this LED flasher has been around for two years already, and it is annoying. In '04: four of them at approximately 90 degrees to each other. In '05: Two of them, at approximately 180 degrees. At about 100', you couldn't see the lights flashing, which meant that you couldn't tell which side the robot was on. Now, with the flags, you can instantly tell if a robot is red or blue, without the primary team identifier being counted in weight. (Before '04, every robot was equipped with a rotaing light for alliance ID. They weighed about a pound.) So, in comparison to previous years, we've got it easy.