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Unread 04-12-2010, 23:09
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Re: [FTC]: Samantha? Like it or hate it?

The actual hardware of the Samantha's seems to be flawed - or at least the configuration system. Two of my team's sister teams had their Samantha's stop functioning after the inspection judge "downloaded" the new configuration onto them.
Also, at the St. Louis regional, there were many problems with disconnections of the Samantha. The problems were persistent throughout the competition and the referees decided to allow some robots to disconnect because "there was no considerable change to the outcome of the match". There was only one match that was replayed. Interestingly, that match had a relatively minor disconnect (the Samantha reconnected after a few seconds, while in other matches the Samantha would stay disconnected the entire time or would continuously disconnect and reconnect to the point where the robot was unusable) and was also a blowout (one alliance had a massively larger amount of points than the other).
The problems continued into the Finals, where 2 out of 3 matches had disconnected during both autonomous (stopping the autonomous program executions) and in teleop.

Bluetooth had some major flaws, but it still seemed much more consistent (at least once it finally connected to the system) than the Wifi with the samantha did.
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