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Originally Posted by Peter Matteson
If I'm not mistaken they require a battery, therefore they have an external power source that is not an allowed FRC power source, hence they are not legal under prior years rules during the competition season.
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We had no rules problems using a GoPro and our robot was inspected by Big Al, the FRC LRI. His ruling is that it is a 'decoration' as I recall.
We had two mounting points on our bot - a lower one on the ball elevator that always pointed robot forward, and one on the turret so it followed the shooting direction-- this had more vibrations when shooter wheels were spinning, but it also had the advantage that it was much closer to our LED's and the basket outlines were much brighter. For some matches in Duluth, we had two cameras on the bot, and managed to capture our most famous shot, where we launched two balls practically simultaneously from just beyond half court, and scored 3+1.
During the MN State HS Robotics Tournament, we mounted a camera behind each of the the top backboards so we have a basket eye view of nearly the entire field.