communication errors at national

[Lloyd Burns]

We had a replay at GLR when the radio fell off the lexan wall, but during Curie practices our bot did its auton_mode thing; back and turn too much, then went forward to the far side of the ramp top. Then before reaching the ramp, it unexpectedly turned 20 degrees, and went straight up the ramp, pushed the boxes to the edge of the top, but not over, then backed down the ramp. Odd !

I was told Thunderchickens' radio modem data base could not have been responsible, being in another band (so why can't we use talkabouts ?) so I rewrote the code to read the program selection switches only once, at start-up, into a variable. I didn't download that program for a while, but it never happened again, even with the unchanged program.

Might this be the result of a large static build up on the ramp ?
Why does code that has seen two regionals suddenly misbehave..once only ?