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Unread 06-04-2006, 23:10
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Re: Camera did not work for well at the regionals, but worked great at home.

Chris, thank you for responding on behalf of our team regarding my question about the camera.

As I mentioned, I'm mainly the mechanical guy and not a programmer.

I really appreciate everyones advice for our team and apparantly there is a lot to be learned when using the camera.

Our programming team did their best to work out problems with the camera before and at the competition. I'm especially proud of their round the clock efforts to adapt our shooter to 100% manual control at the competition.

Being the mechanical guy on the team, it was a bit frustrating watching our performance when you knew that everything was working fine at home, but not at the competition. Mechanical problems (at least for me) are easy to spot and check. This camera thing is a lot harder and it felt like we were guessing too much on how to correct the problem. We put most (not all) of our eggs into this basket and we scrambled to adapt our controls to more effectively shoot in manual only.

I think it would be great if teams who needed to adjust their cameras at the regionals could come up with some sort of document on how they did it. Unfortunately, the short practice sessions don't allow you to just sit with your machine on the actual playing field with a computer and adjust your camera until it works.

Like I said, our camera works perfectly at home and we had a short demo for the local news. Our machine is a completely different animal back home with the camera working. We had a good time at the competition, but I wonder what would have happened if the machine was fully functional