Switching the Channel for Competition

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by ahecht

It is even possible to build a more complex system. The person who wrote the current official FIRST scoring software is an alum of Team 190, and while on the team he was working on making his own system that would interface with his scoring software. I don't think he finished it before he started working for FIRST, but it definately looked possible.

It's not hard to do. We've made a system for our practice field that is computer controlled and allows individual stations to be controlled, as well as real matches with all 4 starting in autonomous then transitioning to normal mode at the correct time. There's a big time display on a monitor so the drivers can get used to watching the clock, and we even have the sounds nicely integrated and all. It makes for some fun (and realistic) practices!