Programmers what is your feild job?

[10intheCrunch]

Jay is our main driver, and I run the arm. It's nice to have programmers out there all the time, as we can diagnose the little control problems faster than a person who didn't spend 6 weeks or more coding the robot. Knowing *why* a robot does what it does is often very important out on the field.

[Ryan M.]

I get to stand around near the field and watch everything. If something happens that the driver's didn't intend, then I have to know what really happened and what was supposed to happen and fix it.

[IMDWalrus]

I've never been on the drive team...

More often than not, I'll watch our matches, usually apart from the rest of the team - it's easier to focus when you're not surrounded by cheering people. I try to pay attention to what the robot is doing and what looks like it's going wrong. When it's not match time...

I tend to do a bit of everything when we're not competing. I've been in the pits, working on the program and/or the robot itself. I've been a gofer, running around to find our drivers so they can strategize for the next match. I've done scouting. I talk to other teams in an attempt to forge friendships with them. Heck, I've programmed robots for other teams before...like 507 in Palmetto.

I do whatever needs to be done, basically. I think they're happy as long as I don't touch the robot - bad things tend to happen when I do that.

[sudeepr71]

At a few practice runs I was able to drive. At one competiton round I was able to drive also. At our first competition I came on the field to make any changes to the autonomous right a way. At the second competition I had to sit in the stands and watch or helped the scouting team.

[fred]

We have like 3-4 programmers (3 going to Nats) and we don't go in the booth. I wanted to become a coach, but that didn't work out and now we have a senior doing it I believe and he has done a very good job. I'm only a sophmore though so I have a couple years to be able to get into the booth and next year, the build/programming crew will be all juniors pretty much with some sophmores as well.

In the pit, we usually hang around because our coaches want something new to get programmed. our robot didn't get completely done until our 2nd regional, chesapeake was pretty much all debugging. At nats, we need a program that can get the ball, so i'm guessing that our programmers will be in the pit again.