By the time I got to today's robotics meeting, there was only one other person left. (I had been at play practice.) Before everyone else decided to go, they added a servo to the back of the robot that I'm not sure about. Currently, it doesn't do anything and they didn't leave instructions as to what to do to complete it. Ignoring that, we (me and the other person, who normally writes the engineering notebook) did some practice driving. Quickly becoming disinterested in that, we decided to fix the autonomous once and for all.
The thing about our robot's autonomous performance is that it is critical for the thing to be aligned correctly with the baskets. If it's not, it will either crash into a terribly placed bolt and get all turned around or end up far away from the basket, though in that case it will make it up the ramp. We did all kinds of tweaks to its timings and even added some new behavior. After a little more than a half hour, we had an awesome autonomous program that works every time and goes faster than the old one!
We are ready.
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