Thread: Starve Them!
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Unread 19-03-2006, 19:32
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Re: Starve Them!

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Originally Posted by Not2B
It would be a bigger bang for the buck if you DIDN'T shoot in auto mode. Why let the tiny computer aim and possibly miss a bunch when you could wait and let the human (with a superior organic computer) aim and hit with higher accuracy later on. And it's not so much the aiming, but the decision to fire. In auto mode, the robot doesn't know it's about to get pushed... but the human can see that and hold off on firing.
There's a couple solutions to this. One is to mount the gyro somewhere on your robot.. if you get pushed, it's angle will be off so you can stop shooting. (This is the easiest to do now, as the gyro+wiring weighs very, very little. It also doesn't require any hardware modifications)