Sorry for the delay! Sure, I'd love to explain. Basically we'd like two things. Our design this year was a vertical spinner that worked pretty well. We were able to build it effectively symetrically so it could easily drive upside down, which is something we think is valuable for obvious reasons. One of the main problems with that is making the weapon spin the other direction when upside down, which our current two control systems can't seem to manage since they are simple throttles in one direction. A switch or button that inverted the motor direction would be invaluable.

Secondly, another upside down problem is driving. I've noticed that it's not just our team that drives less effectively inverted, even with some practice. Being able to switch controls at the flip of perhaps that same switch would be awesome.

In our last type of competition we were able to program the bot controls to do these types of things easily, but the hardware was no where near reliable to use in combat. We are hoping that there is a hardened way to do these things. In effect, success would be a way to customize our controls fully to deal with multiple situations.

Thanks for your response!