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

This is an important issue as more teams are using the gyro.

We are thinking of adding a relatively quiet but noticeable buzzer that will turn on for 8 seconds- the last 2 seconds we will use to initialize the gyro.

If the field crew is moving the robot when the buzzer sounds, they know they have a few seconds to stop moving the bot- if they don't, they at least know that they should reset the cRIO.