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Re: Future of Autonomous Mode

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I've been looking at all the videos from the regionals and I'm very disappointed with the quality of autonomous mode. ...
I completely disagree. I think a lot of teams have been scared off by interrupts and the IR sensors and having to write a realtime embedded sequence in C this year

the learning curve of switching to C has been very high this year.

our team has our bot doing exactly what we want it to do in auton mode - knocking the release ball off then turning around to start collecting them all by itself

and we are using nothing but an Analog Devices yaw rate sensor, and the FIRST beacon detectors - and our detectors are in a fixed postion on the opposite sides of the bot, just to see when we are passing the beacon

in fact, we are not even using interrupts for the IR senors - just polling the INT1 and 2 flag bits to detect when those pins have changed state, then we clear the bits - no interrupts are enabled at all!

If we can do all this with these simple resources, what do we need a pentium and a camera for?

if teams cant even make there bot move in auton mode at all, throwing more complexity at them will not make it easier, it will make it worse.

throwing more money or technology or resources at a problem is never the right answer - if you cant get something to work at all using simple technology, you will never get it to work using something complicated .

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