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Well we ended up with 3 pilots, leaving one S1 available for autonomous Sentry duty, and no media coverage!
I can only assume this means we need more advance notice for meetups!
All of us being programmers we talked a lot about that, and also ran few Free for All battles for fun.
Some takeaways:
The mobile router (TP-Link AC750) is fine! The trick is to just give it a Master Reset, do nothing else, and have all S1 robots and devices connect to it, with the knowledge that there will be no internet connection.
In other words, use the guest wifi or your own mobile internet to download what you need to the App, then only connect to the mobile router for Battle Mode(s).
Once done, it was solid for 2 long battles with 3 bots. So, I will stay with it for now. We will certainly test it to the max on the next meetup.
Next, I finally got around to "Sight Adjustment" in the App, and I was sniping drop targets reliably at good range - out to about 5-6 meters-ish max. Yeah it's kinda fun.
Having obstacles is FUN - running around them and out-guessing your opponent jink left jink right and pelting them - quite fun.
Having a Ramp is fun - but it was pretty easy to tip over a bot. You get a warning, max tilt exceeded, and then all motors and gimbal turn off, to save your hardware from over-stressing. But then you have to walk over and flip it back upright.
Durable S1's - again lots of thumping and bumping around and plenty of tipping over with no malfunctions or breakages.
Gel Bead Jamming - yes I finally got my first actual gel bead jam up - I just removed the magazine, kicked out some broken beads, re-loaded and continued.
Video - too much in the way of trying a 3rd party screen recorder - but I got some clips in my S1's SD cards.
Sentry performance - well it danced the gimbal around and flashed the LEDs real pretty but scored no hits. Note - for future - Sentry gets extra armor and cover to prevent easy hits - it kept getting killed too easy.
With the help from Facilities to clear this vast conference room of chairs - this place is GREAT! We can come back any time! I already sent them a nice thank you note.
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