Scaling

[Boltman]

In San Diego we scaled 3 times all the way up as a low bot but only got credit once. first time last Q match we went up 2 seconds early... next time in QF we scored. Last time in SF we went too far up and slipped back down. Pretty much every qualification match we tried and failed as field was way different than practice wood items.

Scaling is very hard and we did not have a solution until last week ...then we tried in qualification match and finally figured it out on the actual field of play.

There were three other bots that could scale .

Its hard unless scaling is part of the bot design from the get go...for us it was a major subsystem an we worked every build week to figure it out finally had two revelations of how to do it last week (we almost didn't want to go to CV because we were struggling with it so much)...then it worked first in practice day at San Diego and should work in CV this week from our first match on.