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Originally Posted by MiniNerd24
Uhhh... I'm probably wrong but are you allowed to purposely jam the others signals? I thought that was illegal. (TEASER: Well with our modification jamming won't be a problem.  ) |
Not as worried about intentional jamming, but:
A RoboCoach who holds down a button continually, or hits it repeatedly will jam others. Intentional or not.
If you're a RoboCoach, you hit a button and it doesn't work right away, what will you naturally try and do? Chances are, you will either hold it down, or press it as fast as you can, possibly jamming the RoboCoach beside you.
Guess what the RoboCoach beside you will try and do now that their buttons don't seem to be working?
This thread has a couple of good solutions, but it looks like it'll be a combination of many things to effectively get around this. Adjusting scope of IR emissions, adjusting scope of IR reception, and the all important social engineering between RoboCoaches.
Make sure your RoboCoaches know the ins and outs of your robot's IR requirements! I'm calling it now, you WILL run into more than one team (alliance or opponent) whose Hybrid mode will depend on sending continuous IR commands to their robot.
Be prepared to deal with it - in a GP manner of course =).