why blame the programmers??

[dag0620]

Ohhh I was dreading the comeback of this thread!

I've come to the conclusion, it's the age old story, and every team has it, and no-one will ever win it.

But I will admit, as a programmer, we mostly do the bidding of the Design and Mech Teams. I think outside of the Control Board and Autonomous, we have no creative control.

One day the code will be written first, and then a robot built around it

[Radical Pi]

Originally Posted by dag0620

One day the code will be written first, and then a robot built around it

That day has come! Our team leaders literally said "write the code for the test board. We'll design around it"

Sadly, it's not the real robot.

I do get some control over the build though when I threaten to setup the wireless system so that I can hack into the robot from the other side of the school and start driving remotely (something which I am able to do thanks to our school's wireless network)