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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
What this means;
There is no "It is obviously armed"
Requiring a ball to arm it doesn't make it any move obvious
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I agree. I see no correlation between holding a trackball and the ability to shoot that ball 6 feet in the air.
I also have no idea what an "obviously armed launcher" looks like, so how could I possibly know whether any launcher I see is armed or not.
I came up with an idea for signaling to the robocoach when IR commands were received that would work fine for showing the state of the launcher.
Attach a disc to a servo, code the RC such that whenever the launcher is armed, the servo rotates the disc and the text (written such that it can be seen from a distance) "Launcher armed" is visible. When the launcher is safe, it rotates to "launcher safe". No lights to interfere with vision systems or distract other teams, no dealing with custom circuits and drawing power from the RC to power LEDs, etc.
For added safety, attach a spring or something to the assembly that will make the disc default to a third position, "SIGNAL LOST, STAND CLEAR", if power to the servo is lost or if it becomes disconnected.