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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
With this, at least, I disagree strongly. For several years in a row, we've had usable software ready well before the robot was assembled. A lot of the "fancy" programming can be written and debugged using a simulator or testbed. For tweaking PID constants and presets you do need an actual robot, but much programming is possible without one. For some problems, all you need is time.
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This is true, if you have the access to and expertise required to use said simulator and/or testbed. This makes it difficult to impossible for younger teams to try anything complicated programming-wise.
This is not so much an issue with games like Aim High. Our team went for the low goal, lined up the robot with dead reckoning, and were fairly successful. This year, in Rack n' Roll, if we're lucky we'll get our code to work in the time we have. There's no "easy route" other than sitting out autonomous entirely.