Programming goofs!

[PSHRobotics]

Another one of those "d'oh" moments instead of a "goof":
This season we used the line sensors for autonomous. During the build season - our mock practice field required us to have the robot move some extra distance after stopping at the "T"/cross made by the tape to effectively and consistently score. When we got to competition, it seemed that the robot was too far from the wall, so we simply added to the amount of feet to try to get it to work. When we finally got time to go to the practice field, however, we realized that the robot was actually bouncing off of the plate at the bottom of the scoring pegs and being pushed too far back. We didn't figure this out till right before eliminations - and we did not have any successful autonomous runs in qualifiers or practice. But once we took out a simple "feed power to the motors for 500 milliseconds" in the code, our autonomous worked every single time.