Binary Driving

[Ryank]

Is it legal to use the remote contorls (the four channels we are allowed) to give the robot a full four digit binary number? (or a three or two digit one) For example I have four horizontal buttons and I pres the first and second button on the remote. I have effectively just told the robot 0011 or "3" in base ten. Is that legal? I realize that you cannot change what a button does during the match (for example you press it once and it raises the arm and then you press it agian and it drives forward) and you can't use two buttons at once.

Also radical theory, we were thinking this would be a one shot thing, that within the rules we could input one bidary number and then we're done, no other input (because we would be changing the function of the button), but, what if we could input multiple binary numbers? We could drive in binary. A four digit binary number covers 16 digits, 0 through 15. With that you could use 0 through 11 to be "clock" directions or increments of 30 degrees? And then per se 12-15 do things like, raise arm, lower arm, high gear, low gear. Technically I didn't see anything wrong with this, technically your only remote function is giving the robot a number, but how it interperets different numbers is the autonomous part.