What is a programming garage?
It is an IR opaque box in which you program your robot. It can be as simple as a cardboard box. This prevents your programming tower from programming other robots in the vicinity. If you keep your robot inside this box when not needed, it helps to prevent your robot from being accidentally programmed! Humor In relation to the catapult supplied with Mission Mars When our MAV launcher was newly built, it was capable of sending the sample canister on a trajectory that left the vicinity of Gusev crater. Now that the re-useable space vehicle has been flown one too many times by the space agency, the launcher is incapable of injecting the canister into even a low orbit and the canister always comes crashing back down onto Gusev crater. Moreover, the canister usually lands directly on top of the Great Wall of Mars and ricochets into the ice drilling operation, creating much havoc. Has anyone else experienced this performance degradation and what have you done about it? I believe that it may b
