paper: 1153 Autonomous Recording Project ("Echo")

[John]

This project, which was written by myself and Derek Caneja from team 1153, is to help teams that do not have much time to program create an autonomous mode anyway. Based off of some of our new programmers trying out the program with minimal help, we estimate that it takes approximately 30-45 minutes to set up the program, and about 10-15 minutes to record each autonomous mode (though this could be made shorter by reusing some actions from old autonomous routines). We would like any feedback people have on how to improve this. Some ideas for what we might incorporate next are:

-Running multiple actions (recorded separately) simultaneously (for example, turn and raise an arm)
-Using sensors to control actions (either instead of or in addition to time)
-Making the playback code more efficient
-Creating a better way to select Autonomous modes while at competition

Additionally, we will improve our set of instructions as people comment on what is clear and not clear. (Currently the instructions refer to unzipping a folder and dragging the folder into the project; instead you should put all of the individual .vi files in the project; that will be fixed soon). We also hope to make a video explaining how to use the program.