[caitlin2437]

Our team's programmers-in-training are having some difficulties getting our VEX robot to follow EasyC programs. Our biggest problems come when using a program created from a template: it's supposed to have a short half-second initialize before it runs for 20 secs in autonomous, afterwards going to operator control. It seems that the robot is randomly choosing parts of the code to follow, e.g. in one run it might follow the whole code, but in another, as is most often, it will skip straight to operator control. There's nothing wrong with the code--it was working very well one day, and then the next it was once again refusing to run in autonomous. We've tried to download just a simple autonomous code onto the robot--that only works half the time, as well.

Anyone experiencing similar problems, or have any idea of what could be wrong with the robot (specifically, not just that it's probably broken somehow--we already know that) ?