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Originally Posted by Doug Leppard

Did you use the camera to get there?

Yes, there's no other way to do it that often from that many angles (Palmetto Q29) without the camera. As a matter of fact, we noticed that the rack got seriously twisted by the refs just before our matches.

When you see the robot waddle (software's term) or swagger (team lead's term), you know it's tracking the light.

If the light was too far to the side, the robot would actually drive away from the light keeping it at the edge of the viewfinder until it came into closer alignment with the spider leg at which point it would turn back to the center to score. (Homework for the reader: what light geometry did we use to determine the fact that we were "on the beam"?)

Lynn (D) - Team Voltage 386 Software and Coach