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Re: Our Robot weight woes.. to rebuild or not to rebuild

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Originally Posted by viperred396 View Post
we aren't really sure where all the weight is coming from.. we think its the motors and electronics

4 CIMs
2 window
2 throttle
3 Banebot775

plus the electronics
cRio2
6 Jags
3 victor
2 spikes
Kinect
small laptop (for image processing

plus the 4 andymark pneumatic tires
the extraordinary piece (weight-wise) is the laptop and the Kinect! Is that necessary? Can you move vision-tracking to the cRIO? or remove it all together? (better than not playing at all)

Have you tried the Kinect on the robot? I thought teams were having trouble making that work as a rectangle tracker.
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