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Re: Week 2: So how's that Field Working?

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Originally Posted by devicenull
Tell me, if I hadn't noticed that we were still disabled during auto mode, would that match have went on, or was there some display showing we weren't enabled?
When I noticed that the blue 'bots weren't moving, I checked and saw that their LED's were still solid blue (disabled mode) instead of rapidly blinking (autonomous mode). I alerted Melissa, the scorekeeper, and she killed the match.

Ricky from IFI would have noticed it on the scanner if the match had gone on any longer. (On a side note, that scanner is amazing - it picks up all sorts of useful information such as battery voltages and disabled states, just by intercepting the communications between the various RCs and OIs. It's thanks to it that the staff is able to warn teams on the field about dead backup batteries and the 8.3V bug. So far, we've been able to catch and rectify every single control system problem brought about by a team's negligence, before the match starts.)
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