[EricH]

Originally Posted by DELurker

Simple is easy. You could just mount the gyro on something that rotates (bearing, bushing, whirling dervish, whatever) and align the gyro to the field for each match...

And lock the spinning device right before you start--say, a wedge between two plates. That might be the way to go. (Unless, of course, you like to think your robot is the Tasmanian Devil.)