Programmers: I Have A Challenge For You

[EricH]

What I would suggest, as you go for it:

Start by writing automation for certain functions. For example, when you have a ball, target and shoot. When you don't have a ball, look for one.

It'll be a lot easier to get blocks of automation that can be used by the drivers and then combine them into one completely automated program than it will be to write the whole program from scratch. (It'll also allow the drivers to take control if they need to.)

slavic262, it's almost a simpler challenge. DARPA had to travel a certain distance, with a full-size vehicle, via previously unknown waypoints. On an FRC field, we know EXACTLY where the boundaries and other things are, other than gamepieces and other robots. It can't be done, you say. People said the same thing about: manned flight, steamboats, space flight, connecting computers... If it couldn't be done simply because some people thought it couldn't be done, we'd still be in the Middle Ages or earlier. Also note that some folks do stuff where the designers would say, "That plane can't do that!"--but they're still doing it. The plane wears out faster, but it can be done.

Also note that nothing in the rules prevents you from building a custom circuit to assist the cRIO with its processing. If you wanted to do that, you could get more done...