What Are You Doing During Autonomous Period?

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by Egg 3141592654

We deploy, because no amount of pre-charged tank pressure can get that kicker going in enough time to do much

What do you mean about "No amount of Pre-Charged Tank Pressure"?

I'm not trying to challenge your post or anything, but you can completely charge your pneumatic system before you walk on the field. That's what we're going to do and I know quite a few teams do this as well.

[Egg 3141592654]

Originally Posted by thefro526

What do you mean about "No amount of Pre-Charged Tank Pressure"?

I'm not trying to challenge your post or anything, but you can completely charge your pneumatic system before you walk on the field. That's what we're going to do and I know quite a few teams do this as well.

What i mean is that our kicker is a long range kicker, and takes FOREVER to set up (Piston is too small), but once it is set, it takes a few seconds to reset after that.

[pschre]

If all goes well (chiefly our programmer figuring out how to get what he wants out of the encoders - and if not I guess he'll dead reckon using time) we should have about 16 different autonomous options, selectable with a rotating potentiometer dial (a clicking one would have been nice, but pre-match we'll just have to tether the Classmate to the robot and make sure we stop the dial at the appropriate number). Options such as: get out of our partners' way in the first 5 seconds, wait the next 5 seconds, and flick the ball over the hump/into the goal in the last 5 seconds, and various combinations thereof.

[jblay]

Hope that it doesn't mysteriously stop working in the eliminations and that it doesn't stop us from moving at all.

[apalrd]

Originally Posted by pschre

...our programmer figuring out how to get what he wants out of the encoders - and if not I guess he'll dead reckon using time...

If he wants help with the encoders, tell him to ask. There are many people here who would gladly help him.

As for that potentiometer thing, you can have dashboard indicators on your Classmate during Disabled, and see it there.