Suffield Shakedown observations...

[Kendal Reed]

Originally Posted by Bongle

I cannot believe so many teams didn't go for the drive-straight autonomous mode. This is the first year I've been in FIRST where you can actually get some permanent points simply for driving straight. If you have 3 robots that can do nothing else, having all 3 of them drive across the first line is 1.5 hurdles of points. DO IT. This is certainly something I see teams helping with at a competition pre-match: "hey do you have a drive-straight autonomous mode?" "no?" "ok here you go".
If you're having trouble with the code, here's some:

pwmLeft = pwmRight = 127;
if(time < AMOUNT_OF_TIME_TO_DRIVE) // experimentally determined, but 100 might be a good bet
{
  pwmLeft = pwmRight = 190;
}
time++;

Um... what kind of drive system are you expecting? I can't think of any where it would make sense to use the same value for the left and right PWMs. Most systems have the left and right motors facing in opposite directions and would therefore use value pairs where one side's value is equal to 255 minus the other's.