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Re: Using the Gyro's "temp"?

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Originally Posted by EricVanWyk View Post
My thought is to monitor it through a few matches and see if it is moving enough to be worth your effort. The effect I would be most concerned with is self-heating - can you see a difference between powering on the system from cold and rebooting the system after it has been on for a while?
As long as the temperature doesn't change significantly from the time you powered the robot on, it shouldn't make a difference, as the calibration procedure is performed on startup every time (at least in Java).
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