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Re: Spectrum 3847: Infrared Reveal

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Originally Posted by Keegbot View Post
I love the intake a the way you hold the ball in, but is there a sensor on the robot that senses the ball when it comes into the robot or does the driver need to manually press a button? We are using a sensor, but I'm wondering if it is easy enough to just press a button.
We have both systems running.

The driver holds the bumper (button above the trigger on an Xbox controller) during collection. If he lets go collection stops, collection also stops when the IR range finder senses the ball. Most of the time the driver is able to get it before the ball reaches the sensor but when they are blind to the ball and 54 ft away hopefully the sensor will take over.

Our code is on github, it's by no means competition ready, we still have 3 weeks till our first competition.
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