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Originally Posted by Radical Pi
as an FYI the frc director's blog got a post today that said power strips are now available in the queue for charging the classmate while waiting for the match.
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That helps all the teams from the previous regionals.....It will be nice in the future though. Btw does anyone know why First has never and from what we can tell never will provide power at the driver station. It seems like a simple thing that would make everyone's lives easier and the question has been asked from multiple people on our team. Quite frankly we don't have a darn clue.
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Originally Posted by Radical Pi
One more thing out of curiosity: In the event that a ball is scored and properly returned on the ball return, however the return sensor fails and doesn't detect the ball, does the scorekeeper have a way to manually override the DOGMA penalties to keep the game from killing an alliance for a field error? Also, what happens if there is the reverse, a ball is missed by the ball counter and is caught by the ball return. Any idea how the system handles this?
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The blue ball counters rarely worked at WI. It took the refs a few matches to realize that the teams were not as slow as they thought. We originally lost a match because it said we got three penalties for not getting balls back in time. When we looked the match results the next day we saw the penalties were gone. The majority of the matches the refs / others kept score manually.
I just confirmed that our classmate battery was 75% charged. If this causes a problem then from the sounds of it maybe the classmate is not the computer to be using a driver station.....or as previously stated it should be able to be powered during competition.