Thursday, October 27, 2011

Autonomous Menu "complete" ... late October meetings

Only a few weeks until we compete for the first time ever.  We've spent almost all of our time lately on minor mechanical tweaks, a little bit of driver practice and really hammering away at our autonomous routines.  There are four of them - one to score in the isolation zone, another to score in the interaction zone, a third to scatter the stack, and a fourth just to sit still.  Special thanks to the KTOR crew for showing us a template we could use for routine selection using jumpers. 

After reading the vex forums (www.vexforum.com) we decided that using the jumper method would be best suited for our rookie endeavor.  While the routines aren't perfect, they all are highly functional, pretty much just using "wait" statements and paying close attention to starting battery voltage.  If time allows we may try to add some simple switches/sensors so we're less dependent upon voltage and wait time, but we feel pretty good about what we have as is. Here are a few photos of the mechanical setup that supports our routine selection:




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