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Re: Team 2485's Sun Tzu: Frisbee Trail

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Originally Posted by mitchKarch View Post
Wow those are some really cool photos! I'd really like to try this out with our robot but where can I get those glowing discs?
We actually took the normal white FRC disks and lined the inside with an amber led strip.

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Originally Posted by CENTURION View Post
You know this might actually be useful from a gameplay perspective too, if you had some glowing reference points at known distances, you could track the arc and distribution of your shots. Could be useful for tuning a FCS?

In any case, the photos are gorgeous!
The issue is that the frisbee weighs much more than a normal frisbee because of the addition of the led strip and 4 AA batteries. Maybe this could work with a glow in the dark frisbee though!
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