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Originally Posted by ice.berg
I know on our team we generally don't like looking down at the dashboard during a match. Since when you look down you can lose track of where the bot is on the field and such.
So this year we implemented some onboard 12v LED's that are then controlled with a spike. Then in the program we have the LED's correlated with a sensor on our robot telling if we have full grasp of the ball. So when we have the ball our LED's turn on. This has shown to really help our drivers efficiency on the field.
Your experience may vary though depending on drivers and such of course.
If you need more info on how we did this and what we used dont hesitate to ask!
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Yeah, we've done this in the past on our bots as a "skunk works" kind of project. Our mechanicals group never seems to leave any space on the bot for mounting any indicators let alone providing a means to easily wire anything from the sidecar up to a place that such an indicator would live. And, this year's bot is no exception. Only 1" aluminum square channel in the upper structure and the ball comes in on one side and fires out the other. So, very little space to do much of anything. Oh well, there's always next year. Hopefully, the new roboRio will reduce the footprint of the controls hardware enough to allow for more options.
Thanks,
Mike