pic: Touchscreen interface, theory of operation

[Billfred]

I can't think of any 2009 rules that prohibits FTPing a file of commands over pre-match. 195 used a similar strategy in 2006 to let them create waypoints to make them more effective in defending against opponents in autonomous (theirs, as I remember, used a PDA connected to the serial port to dump the data before the match).

I'll ask a silly question: What if you want to run your manipulator (including specifying a particular position) during your autonomous routine?

[biojae]

Originally Posted by Billfred

I'll ask a silly question: What if you want to run your manipulator (including specifying a particular position) during your autonomous routine?

this is a general implemetation, based off of our 2009 lunacy robot. there are no manipulators that need to be run in auto. if our 2010 robot has a manipulator then the code will have to adapt.
the screen can display anything that we want it to, so we could have it display various options on the screen.