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Re: DIO to read SIO

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Originally Posted by enrique View Post
But then came the idea to use 2 of them. One on the turret and one on the main frame of the robot. Our last thought was to use the cypress board to read the heading and pass it in through the DIO as a binary number.
Why do you need two absolute heading sensors? Can't you just use one compass sensor and a potentiometer for the delta? For example, compass on the main frame and the potentiometer on the turret.
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