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Originally Posted by jerry w
now this is one of the best posts so far! it focuses on what we have in hand instead of wishing that the board would do fantastic things.
i have already posted 4 clues.
anyone who is serious about solving this puzzle needs to examine the board.
CLUE# 5
the programmers might best like this clue. on the robot controller the digital inputs are the most used connections for feedback devices. we often come close to using all these inputs. so why would first design a board with 4 ouputs?
only a single remote can be detected at any time. thus only a single output line will pulse. this provides 4 pieces of information. it takes only 2 bits to hold 4 different values. the board should have 2 signal lines if the robot controller is to use this IR detector.
therefore, this will not be on the robot. we should try to determine what field-device could be activated by the 100 ms pulse from this board. there must be 4 gates, or 4 containers, or 4 of something.
jerry w
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Yeah its much more likely that we have 4 spare outputs. Right?.
You assume that we're using the same FRC controller. If the robot were the IR transmitter there would still need to be an IR encoding board or each team will need to write code to encode the IR signals.