best technical feature at GLR

[Chris Hibner]

I always hate tooting my own horn, but I have to on this one.

We have a system that is very similar to WildStang's. We implemented our's slightly differently due to the lack of crab steering on our robot, though.

Unfortunately, we didn't work as well as we could have at the GLR since we had some mechanical issues in the system (our measurement wheel was losing contact with the ground), some electrical issues (an ESD filter caused us to miss some wheel rotations), and some software issues (a systems bug caused us to shift gears at the wrong time in our first 5 matches).

As is typical with our team, we finally got it together just before pit close on Friday night (check out our team record at our 1st regional of every year and you will see that this is what we always do - but we always get much better VERY quickly). Our autonomous mode ran nearly perfectly in our ONLY match on Saturday, which was just too late to matter (esp. considering the match was the 2nd to last match so probably no one was watching).

Anyway, we do a couple of other cool things that I don't even think WildStang does, which we haven't shown yet. I would like to invite everyone at the West Michigan Regional (we're going now!) to come check them out. We know we'll be using them there.

Sorry for the shameless plug (not really),

Chris