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Unread 02-01-2007, 12:17
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Re: [TBA] Episode 2 - Custom Controls

Thanks for the good video. I'll probably show it to my programmers this year. Last year we hacked an easy button to turn on a gyro assisted PID drive that did a good job of letting the robot still drive straight after the drivetrain team drill pressed our encoders. However, our driver didn't like it so we had to turn it on with a button. We hacked ours by making a little switch under the pop plate, so that the switch was on a separate circuit from the sound. We took the batteries out for competition anyway, but it was popular on demonstrations and with the team to still have sound. I never did look up whether it would have been competition legal to keep the batteries in. Thanks again,

Kyle W,
Engineering Director, Team 1014 (Dublin Robotics)
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