Who thinks the IR board's operational characteristics leave much to be desired?

[purduephotog]

Old style party lines, ehhh?

I was actually thinking about that today. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to saturate the area with IR pulsed radiation? It would be like jamming- something several Aerospace sponsors work on for the military. Then good little programmers would have to devise methods to beat the jamming, such as perhaps specific spectral IR filters to only bandpass certain wavelengths, then authenticate with a certain code first..... anyway.

We've had no luck with the board. I looked at it when it first came in and then handed it off to another engineer. If it works at the competition, great, but since we don't really have a programming team I'm not too hopeful

What would I find really nice to see here? Telemetry feedback. Not every team has a huge gymnasium or build center to work on- or perhaps nascar style first person view of the action. That would impress me much more than a semi-teleoperated period.

Or even lastly... stateful machine. 4 command sequences each evaluated upon what the current state of the robot is. But since that's specifically outlawed I think our IR board will go sit next to the EDU robot.