entech281 / Season_2018

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Learning in palmetto #36

Open dcowden opened 6 years ago

dcowden commented 6 years ago

Shoot/intake motors too slow

Need to get scale or switch auto. Focus on one side

Need robotmap to be a class not static so we have have practice and real be different

Write unit tests for the current lifter And grabber

Need to get a better networking adapter on driver station

Need to get another laptop set up as driver and programming laptop

Go through all the commits since Greenville to see what was necessary to fix

dcowden commented 6 years ago

Must have access to all roborio ports and talons

dcowden commented 6 years ago

DD a class for current limiting end stop and a linear axis based on that

dcowden commented 6 years ago

Power over Ethernet

dcowden commented 6 years ago

Minimize travel time to win

dcowden commented 6 years ago

Tote with programming gear and a checklist.

Power strip, hub, programming laptop, 2x short patch, 2x long tether , 2x USB, 1x extension cord,,

dcowden commented 6 years ago

Is it possible to set auto prefs on the driver station?

dcowden commented 6 years ago

Really strong auto could let us get picked

dcowden commented 6 years ago

Need to practice programming with the tether at the shop.

dcowden commented 6 years ago

Programmers need to have network dongles to allow programming at competition

dcowden commented 6 years ago

Last known good scripts to deloy quickly the last working version of the code, mark the last known good and one script to deploy that one. Use match number

dcowden commented 6 years ago

Go over this list

dcowden commented 6 years ago

Refactoring paths to re use them vs having lots of separate ones

dcowden commented 6 years ago

We need one driver not two

dcowden commented 6 years ago

Use datalogger. Warn instead of throwing exceptions

dcowden commented 6 years ago

Talk about strategy. Go after the switch once you control the scale!

dcowden commented 6 years ago

It has to be someone's job to play the power ups . Several teams axrewwes it up and didn't play them. It is someone's job to play the power up

dcowden commented 6 years ago

Code should be written in terms of inside and outside

dcowden commented 6 years ago

use smart dashboard chooser to pick auto

dcowden commented 6 years ago

Accept no broken windows! Peter noticed a problem and didn't point it out because he thought it was a kludge and was authored by a mentor.

mandrews281 commented 6 years ago

Perhaps smart dashboard has improved; but a couple of several years ago, we tried to to use it to select autonomous. The communication was troublesome. We had to stop and start the smart dashboard before the match started after connecting to the field.

dcowden commented 6 years ago

oh ok. lets try it again. we could also try using the Preferences object-- maybe its better behaved

mandrews281 commented 6 years ago

Sure I think it's time to try again.