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Re: Broken cameras...Anyone?

Patrick, First, we already have all the camera code in a try-catch and an if statement checking if (null!=image) where image is the new image.
--Second, we may not have to reimage, I wasn't at the practice and that's what everyone who was there said.
--Third, I don't know, that's part of our problem.

Garrett, the code isn't outputting any error messages when this happens, we put in a check for camera.freshImage() which seems to return false once or twice, and then return true the rest of the time, bypassing the rest of the camera code. As for the zip-tie and tape, we have alreadey tried holding the power cord in with a rubberband around the entire camera, but that doesn't seem to be the problem because we are getting live feed the the SmartDashboard the whole time except for extreme cases. The camera is getting jostled around a bit, and is attached to the top of the shooter mechanism so the image goes blurry when we shoot, could that have loosend some of internal parts?

Ruffles, thanks for the idea, I'll suggest that to the team.
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