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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
With real robots, or practice robots? And what field management system was running (the full competition FMS, or FMS Lite)?
Also, if that scrimmage was with real robots, and this was a sanctioned occurrence, FIRST should have stated publicly (perhaps in an update) that it was giving teams attending this regional a waiver from some of the fabrication schedule and shipping requirements.
If it wasn't sanctioned by FIRST, who let the robots out? (Access to robots outside of the approved periods is serious business.)
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Obviously this was with practice robots, with parts from the 65 pound withholding allowence (and held in a high-school gym)
despite yarden's comments I'd like to say that communication problems were present in the pre-season event because we were not running any FMS at all, but rather just enabling robots for ~10 min matches.
each DS had it's own router and wifi network, which caused alot of interference. we tried changing the channels, but this was both time consuming to do, and not a perfect solution since wifi channels overlap.
Hindsight being 20/20, It's obvious that the best solution would have been to get 6 demo robots and test the field system beforehand. I'm not sure this would have been obvious to
anyone before the fiasco started.
-Leav