Recognizing the colors of the balls in autonomous mode

[efoote868]

Well, last year one of our members fried the camera, so we purchased another one. At this point I think that we could use it (COTS MECHANISM which wasn't provided in the KOP, thats a loophole, right?)... but to no effect. Besides, who wants to program the camera again!?!

[Armando Gonzalez]

Well, Mr. Robocoach is going to be pretty important.

[finaldark]

I will say one thing, i know the programmers on our team are very disappointed for the "Robocoach". I kinda am too. I think its a cool concept, but like they even said, they made it too easy and i know for a fact those IR remotes and Sensors aren't going to work half the time when the robot is turned the other way... (Not to mention the glass where the driver station is.. That will have some kind of effect). I guess we will have to wait till we all get building to find out how its really going to work out.

[rcflyer620]

A couple thoughts about the IR system and the robocoach.
1. You may need to "re-train" your board before a match to use different buttons if two robots happen to be using the same remote.
2. Being limited to 4 functions (and I'll leave that definition open) makes for a very important programming decision regarding what you'll use them for.
3. Hybrid is only 15 seconds long so obviously they want us to use it to knock the balls down because I don't think you could get around the track in that time.
4. Unlike autonomous, the IR is active for the whole match so you may want to use that fact to help you decide on its functions.

All that having been said, while the game is a little more simple, deciding how to play it is not. There are going to be a wide variety of solutions which should make things interesting.
So let's get out there and "trade some paint!"

--mark