Programmers what is your feild job?

[BlueOrion]

I'm not a programmer myself, but usually the few programmers that do go to competition (not like we have a ton anyway) work on programming the Daisy, scouting or sitting in the stands. They don't spend time building the robot and often times don't understand the intricacies of it, so the drivers wind up being people from the build crew. On our team, anyone can be in the booth, IF they show that they can do the job better than anyone else and they are consistent, regardless of their position on the team.

[Gene F]

Role on the field? How about field announcer! I worked on the programming, drawings and yes announcer at the Palmetto Regional. I'm an engineer/mentor for 343 MIM.

[pickle]

Well, scapegoat generally :-p

During the midwest regional, I spent most of my time in the pits, and at the lonestar one, I was givin the job of running around the stands and making lots of noise.... Some programming I did from the stands to get inspiration from other teams competing, and ya....

[CyberWolf_22]

Wait your programmers don't also help build well that must be boring.
I end up doing working on all parts of the robot.

[Allison]

we only use one driver this year, the second driver is used to pass balls to the human player. as for programmers like i said i drive and program.

our drive team is made up of those who do it best

[pickle]

Well... It turns out that like, as far as our team goes, we have like 6 programmers/elecrical guys who tend to break mechanical stuff when they try to help with it... I personally wish I was more mechanically inclined, or knew slightly more about mecchanical stuff so I could help out, but ya, we have a set of people with a vrey narrow and set skillset

[FizMan]

Our team programmer was also the driver this year. Apparantly we had a second programmer, but apparantly he did next to nothing in regards to that.

I'm a good programmer myself, but unfortunately have no experience when it comes to robot input/output, so the limit of my source code involvement was debugging the main programmer's code.

I'm hoping next year I can take a few crash courses with my team's teacher (who also teaches all the electronics programming stuff) so I can take a more active role in the coding of the robot.

Oh, and by the way, I was the field coach

[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by pickle

Well... It turns out that like, as far as our team goes, we have like 6 programmers/elecrical guys who tend to break mechanical stuff when they try to help with it...

Oh, I tend to fry electronics. OI, fisher price motors, ...