Despite the extra-long meeting today to help us prepare for the meet on Friday, very little happened. (Note to everyone: we might start making progress if people actually came to and stayed at the meetings.) We're waiting on something or other for our robot (still the 3D-printed part?), so the very few people present from my team helped the other team disassemble a questionably-constructed lift mechanism and strategically apply electrical tape to cap off channels.
I started research into an autonomous routine, and discovered something incredibly annoying. RobotC's compiler does not accept "#pragma config" entries in header files; they must be in the main C file. Therefore, I can't move the motors and sensors setup into its own header file for convenient reuse and one-stop modification. (Some external preprocessing might have to happen.)
We started attaching the infrared detector to the robot, but the height of the beacon (21 inches, 3 above the maximum height of the robot) will make autonomous programming more difficult. While considering the challenge, I helped the other team test an alternative lift, which seemed to be successful.
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