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Re: Autonomous Program Switch

Last year we used three SPST on the DS (mounted on a piece of polycarb) to set autonomous modes by treating each one as a binary bit, giving us 8 possible auto modes. This system is simple to use and remember, can be changed right up until you step back, and can easily be expanded by adding another switch. I'm not sure how the implementation would work with the new driver station system, but we have also used the same switch setup on the robot ('08 I think) when we couldn't get a signal to pass from the driver station to the robot during auto.
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