REWARD OFFERED: A CAPPED VISION TETRA ON THE CENTER FIELD GOAL

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If you'd like to browse vision tetra driving plans, I've posted our Triple Play Autonomous Route Visualizer (TriPlay) to BitTorrent at http://ldeffenb.dnsalias.net:30049. Download "TriPlay.zip.torrent" which should deliver a .zip file containing TriPlay.exe. This is a Windows GUI executable written in C and talking to the native Win32 API, so don't be surprised at how small it is. The same source code also builds and runs on a PocketPC.

Once run, it shows the Triple Play field. You can click on initial robot positions and goals and tetras to see what all our robot actually knows how to do in autonomous mode. The center line is if everything works and the two outer lines are what happens if we push min and max tolerances on distances and turns. The robot ends at the green rectangle with turns and/or stops at the intervening yellow rectangles.

If you click on an auto feeder and the corresponding home-row corner goal, you'll see that we know how to do that from any starting point as well.

Problem is, with all of this software design and implementation, the robot isn't fast enough. Sigh....

Lynn (D) - Team Voltage 386 Coach and Software Mentor

PS. The .EXE is virus/worm free as far as I know. Run it through your own scanners as I'm not responsible for anything that might happen to it between me and you.

PPS. If someone *really* wants to see the source (it's grungy and wasn't written for readability), drop me a PM and I'll send it out *after* Atlanta!