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Re: [FTC]: Autonomous?
The code I looked at for our teams 2007 camera is only slightly useful, I wrote a base code within several if, then statements just to see values come back on the screen. It can be good, if you have the time to write 100 lines or so of code.
We have strategies that my Drive team is formulating to help make autonomous better. We also added a new addition to keep balls from escaping when we open a ball chute, with a wide enough angle so none of the balls can pass without entering our hopper which takes up 75% of our robot = holding lots-o-balls.
The color sensor is really nice but it's range is limited. I have to dead tell it how to get to the goal, but once it's there it makes the minor adjustments to get in line to shoot.
Yeah Our Autonomous was a key factor on how we won one of our regionals, we had the high score of the day but ended up having a failure in the Finals match 2 but luckily we scored 5 in the high goal during autonomous so we won the match. I hate failures but we are training our Field team to be able to fix any problem in 3 minutes or less, we only really have one part of our robot that can fail and now that we changed it's design it's a really quick fix.
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John Fogarty
2010 FTC World Championship Winner & 2013-2014 FRC Orlando Regional Winner
Mentor FRC Team 1102 M'Aiken Magic
"Head Bot Coach" FTC Team 11444 Garnet Squadron
Former Student & Mentor FLL 1102, FTC 1102 & FTC 3864, FRC 1772, FRC 5632
2013 FTC World Championship Guest Speaker
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