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Hi Doug,

One of our student programmers wrote the graphical interface in a couple of hours using Visual Basic 6. VB is great for knocking off graphical interfaces quickly. He used the image of the playing field published by FIRST as the background and simply made each pixel represent one inch of distance. You have to account for the extra distance over the slope of the ramp though.

One of the nice things about doing it this way is how small the program actually ends up being. Our basic autonomous program takes up 50% of a program slot.

Sounds like your son has valuable robot navigation experience to bring to your team. An obstacle course might be fun for a FIRST game.
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