Hybrid Challenge-No Robot Left Behind

[JesseK]

Incorporating sensors isn't hard I think. It's just as easy (to me) as incorporating a timer and just takes a few extra lines of code. The hardest part is the mounting of the sensor.

Our auton. really is mostly autonomous. We set states using dipswitches on the bot to tell it what "lane" it is in when we place it. The gyro and transmission encoder take over from there. The robocoach has 1 main button he presses and that's the "1 second pause" button. 2 other buttons are for slight angle adjustments left/right if we're ever in position to knock our ball off or are in danger of knocking the opponent's ball off.

We've easily crossed 3 lines twice and should have crossed the last line. When asked why we didn't make the final turn, the lead programmer stated "I didn't think we'd ever get that far". Ha! In Philly our robocoach will be going around and is tasked with assisting other teams with their IR boards and at least getting them to slowly drive forward over the first line.