2008 Gyro
 

The pins on the 2008 gyro are labeled as follows:
What do R and T refer to? T appears to be angular velocity, from its values.

/David

To anyone struggling with the gyro, here's what I know:
The second row (B, R, W) refers to the colors of wire (black, red, and white). The G and 5 refer to GND and +5V, respectively.

Re: 2008 Gyro
 

T is for Twist
R is for Relative Temperature

200 Sensor Manual: http://usfirst.org/uploadedFiles/Com...sor_Manual.pdf

Re: 2008 Gyro
 

Really, T is for Temperature, and R is for angular Rate. However, they screwed up the silk screening, so they are flipped.

Re: 2008 Gyro
 

For those that had good results from the gyro this year, did you use the code in for the temperature calibration?

We used WPILib this year, but did not attempt to incorporate the temperature calibration, and it worked okay, but could have been better

Re: 2008 Gyro
 

What kind of applications do FIRST teams use temperature for generally?

Re: 2008 Gyro
 

According to the 2008 sensor manual, the gyro measurements vary with temperature as such:
So, you would probably use it if your gyro is mounted in a location where the temperature might be changing a lot. We didn't use it this year, and just sort of assumed that termperature was a constant. It probably would have been a little accurate if we had used it though.

Re: 2008 Gyro
 

Thanks for all the help and especially the link to the sensors manual.

/David