Autonomous Coordinating/Timing

[bhaidet]

I imagine that the autonomous periods this year will look like a game of knockout, where all the teams fire at the same basket at the same time and none go in because they hit each other. I know that there were standards for minibot-holding last year and I was hoping to start something similar with autonomous scoring.

Analog (with more flexibility):
Each team has a timer (trimpot) on their robot to say when their robot starts firing.

Digital (and more standard):
Each team can begin firing either immediately, in 5 seconds, or in 10 seconds.


The analog method is better for alliances with teams that take more or far less than 5 seconds to throw, but the digital method would be really easy for everyone to implement in the exact same way. What do you think?