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Re: Lasers

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Originally Posted by Richard View Post
Do you mean these?
Indeed.

To use the Kinect, we would need another computer on the robot to process the Kinect USB data and send higher-level data to the cRIO via the ethernet network or serial. Also, two robots with Kinects would indeed interfere with each other.

Assuming the distance sensors are for finding the distance to the hoops, then the camera can be used. But what about finding the distance to the walls, or other autonomous robots? Just some hypothetical thoughts.