Minibot start and stop conditions

[mikets]

The weight of the touch sensor is hardly anything. But you are right, it is optional (nice to have). Even if you don't climb all the way down, as long as it is low enough that you can reach it, that should be good enough. But I think we will do the 3rd sensor anyway.

[Jared Russell]

If you use a touch sensor to halt the robot, remember to make sure that it doesn't get triggered before the sensor on the pole!

[mikets]

That would be pretty bad if the code would look at the stopping touch sensor before the starting touch sensor. If the state machine is properly coded, the stop sensor should not be looked at until it is in descending state. I will make sure my students don't do that

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by techalex

The FMS has no control over the minibot, per section 1.6.

Help me out here, section 1.6 is kind of long and I can't find this reference. I did look.