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Re: Help the field crew, reset your gyro in autonomous

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Originally Posted by Chris Hibner View Post
Is there a way for us to know in the software if the FPGA is finished determining the gyro bias?
On the C++ side, it takes about 6 seconds from the time the gyro is instantiated to the time that it is done with its calibration. You can actually see the calls to the task wait function in the WPI gyro code. One idea that we have is to turn on an LED after the calibration is complete.