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Re: Drive Team Configuration

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Originally Posted by davidthefat View Post
I take that as a challenge: see you at the regionals. I will do in the best of my abilities to program a very competitive, fully autonomous robot.
David,

Your failing to see the point. Adam suggested that you use your programming skills to help the drivers and the TEAM . With your abilities you could:

-Create a competitive autonomous routine
-Allow better control of the robot for drivers
-Implement more sensors that would provide valuable feedback
-Design a dashboard for you team.
-Automate tasks that would be hard for drivers (such as re cockk the kicker after kicking the 2010 soccer ball and having the kicker go to a desired position).

There are so many different and valuable things you can do to put your team in the best position to win. I believe there was a thread talking about how missions to the moon/mars are not fully autonomous and require some sort of human interaction.

A fully autonomous crappy robot isn't really that amazing, a well built winning robot is hands down much more amazing.

Its very foolish for you to ignore the advice of very talented and respectable CD members. To be honest, my team has worked all year long. Even in the off season. If my team was in the top 8 and we lost a spot cause our alliance partner used us as a "guinea pig", I would be very very upset and so would many of our parents/mentors.

Taking everyones advice here on CD as a challenge makes you look quiet stupid, it doesn't hurt for you to stop an say "Man I was wrong" and take a new direction.

Adam said it best:

"In engineering, it's important to use the appropriate tools and not more resources than are required. Building a completely autonomous robot for a teleoperated competition may be cool, but it's bad engineering. A robot with many automated and autonomous portions to make it easier on the drivers (while maintaining driver control), is good engineering."

Also take some time and think about the posts, don't reply back right away cause you HAVE to leave a reply.

-RC
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