Not much to say for today. We re-did our blue bumpers (which were done yesterday) since we put them a little low before. We also added a small strip of carpet after the color wheel so that the driver could practice driving underneath it smoothly. Then, as software was working on autonomous, we got a little bit of driving practice in. The faster intake speed made things better by at least a factor of ten. We no longer have the problem of balls sometimes getting stuck underneath and now the balls fly into the robot. The macros might need a bit more tuning as we test more but they are pretty good right now. We calibrated the color wheel macro so that we have the capability of doing that as well.
As for autonomous, we now have a working initial mode. For the time being, this will serve its purpose and get us a decent amount of points in the beginning until we figure out a more complex autonomous routine.
Note about the above video: You can see that the tube starts up. We normally would start with it in the fully lowest position but we were testing whether it would be able to start with the tube up and we concluded that it indeed can (as long as we power on the robot first and then reset the encoder to 0 at the bottom and then disable the robot).
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