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Re: exposure periods

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Originally Posted by Tom Line View Post
Consider taking a picture, verifying target position, then translating that to some other sensor like a potentiometer to control your turret. This may also help with other problems like balls obscurring the target, or even other robots getting in the way of the target. Of course, you have to go on the assumption that you're not moving your robot, but that's a pretty fair assumption when most people shoot.

we do exactly that and we normally are not moving the robot - the problem is that the first capture occurs, we tell the turret to move and (we think) the turret might be moving when the next capture occurs - we can always force the sequence I guess

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