IR Remote Interference

[dtengineering]

I stand corrected... one Robocoach per team, six remotes on the field.

However the important part is that each alliance has two robocoach stations because that means if there is any jamming coming from a station, it is the alliances own fault. Take turns, young robocoaches! Not everyone needs to transmit at once.

This also means that an alliance that got their act together in advance could place just one robocoach in each corner.

Red A would respond to buttons 1-4
Red B would respond to buttons 5-8
Red C would respond to channel up/down, volume up/down

Now I see why the IR boards were made to be so easily reprogrammed... it isn't about the technology but about the teams working together. Sneaky GDC has done it again. (see edit below)

Jason

Well, darn... that won't quite work out that way due to rule R65 that limits any one signalling device to using no more than four buttons during a match. Still, a clever designer could build a custom board that resulted in 12 different outputs from four different inputs, I would think.

Second edit... dang... R65 goes on for a while... no, you are only allowed four output states. So, technically, based on R65, a standard IR remote is actually illegal. This rule may need some clairification from GDC on the Q&A forum, as I doubt they meant to ban standard IR remotes, however not many of them fit into the "be able to switch between no more than four states or conditions" rule.