Team Update #1

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Don't forget: the difference between "wow, what a great deploy, first place" and "the refs have disabled your tower" is so infinitesimally small and so much more important than previous end games that I can see nothing good coming of it.

Either teams will release early and get away with it or teams will jump the gun and get their tower disabled based on a number the field cannot precisely display and that no one can see while simultaneously staring at the base of the tower.

You do realize that we have a several hundred dollar control system in charge of the robot, right? Give yourself a deployment arming button and start a timer as soon as the robot enters enabled teleop. If you're armed and the timer hits 110 seconds, fire the minibot. If you're depending on your driver's reflexes, you're wasting valuable time.

[gblake]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

You do realize that we have a several hundred dollar control system in charge of the robot, right? Give yourself a deployment arming button and start a timer as soon as the robot enters enabled teleop. If you're armed and the timer hits 110 seconds, fire the minibot. If you're depending on your driver's reflexes, you're wasting valuable time.

Kevin,

I'm certainly no expert, but I believe that in past seasons there have been up to several seconds of variation in match length during FRC Regional matches.

Talk to a few folks (some FTAs maybe?) who can confirm or deny my fuzzy suspicion before putting too much faith in being able to legally deploy the mini-bots exactly 110 seconds after your robot reports (to itself) the match has been started.

Blake