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Re: Prelim Photon Cannon Test

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Originally Posted by jacob9706 View Post
Why is everyone using such bright lights?? There is absolutely no need for this overkill. Last year we used a really dim (and I mean like a 2 dollar toy keychain light) to illuminate the targets.

If you use a dim colored light the retro reflective properties of the tape will allow you to get a nice HSV range you can use in your programs.
Thats all we had to test with, we are looking at 1000 lum focused, we are not going to use a computer vision tracking, its for our driver. When he sees the light on the reflective tape he can shot. This will give us an arc in front of the goals
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