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Re: Gaff tape on carpet
This was my experience as well. Official gaffers tape on unofficial carpet didn't have enough contrast regardless of mounting height. Actually, our office has two colors of carpet intermingled, and it worked fine on one and not on the other.
My solution was to overlay the clear packaging tape over the gaffers tape. This upped the tape reflectance in the IR range so that it was easy to distinguish from the carpet.
As long as you get there to be a line of high contrast material, it doesn't matter whether you use shiny overlay, different carpet, or different tape altogether; as long as it allows you to distinguish and program the robot to drive it, then at the event on Thursday, you can calibrate for the official carpet and tape combo.
Greg McKaskle
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