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Re: Programming Gyro

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Originally Posted by BradAMiller View Post
You can also look at using an accelerometer that measures acceleration due to gravity. So it measures 1G when straight up in the axis it's measuring and changes by the cosine of the angle as it rotates. Since it's an absolute measurement, there's no drift.
Noise made this almost useless for my team last year. I'll be testing whether running it through a cRIO-side low-pass filter will help, though.
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