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Re: Tracking- Ultrasonic, or Camera?

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Originally Posted by ~Cory~ View Post
What do you want to track? Distance to a goal? Distance to a wall?

An ultrasonic sensor will give only distance. A camera can give distances and much more, but is significantly harder to program.
By mounting the ultrasonic on a servo, direction becomes available.

Last year's Good Idea that would have won an engineering award (given that the winner used the ultrasonic like we did, without the servo for a search capability) if more than one of the kids who talked to a Judge had known about it

There's a team prep lesson in there...
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