[FTC]: FTC Software Requirements

[ManicMechanic]

Originally Posted by Dave Scheck

This single biggest problem that we had were teams that hadn't done any programming whatsoever. These teams came to the competition with the thought that they weren't going to move in autonomous, and were going to use the default tank/arcade code to drive. This is all fine and dandy except for the fact that they didn't have the latest master code, nor did they have the latest template. Upgrading the master code wiped out the default code.

We had also had several teams at our tournament with this problem.

Originally Posted by Dave Scheck

As far as I could tell, there isn't "default" code available that follows the latest template. This required someone (read me) to quickly come up with simple drive code for them before they had to play in the first match.

Last year, Blake created a program that fit within the 2006/2007 template. We tested it at home for the limited conditions of our robot, and it worked, but we didn't test it for various and sundry strange configurations. I'm wondering if it would be difficult to embed the program within the new template and distribute it to tournament organizers and people intending to be helpful. For teams that had had simple programming (2 - 4 motors, using the transmitter in default condition), it was easier to create a program with 1 or 2 R/C commands.