This year we use the Vex ultrasound for our autonomous and to guide manual shooting; it worked very well for us. The only problem is you'll fry it if it get subjected to too much vibration. We mount it at a spot where it get subjected to large amount of shock from our shooter arm. We fried three this season: during practice, regionals and St Louise. Try the Maxbotix in our practice robot while we wait for replacement Vex ultrasound and it did not work for us. Reading jump all over the place even with averaging. We're using Java and we use the analog when we wired the Maxbotix.
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Originally Posted by Nzoner
In the 2014 Aerial Assist game my team and I tried to use Ultrasonic sensors, but with no luck. The Ultrasonic sensor could not get a constant reading, and would often jump from 15ft to only a few inches which would triggers safeties and our launch system. So unless we were just unlucky with our three sensors ( all failed) I would say to avoid them. Maxbotix was the brand, I'm interested to see if the VEX Range Finder works better, and will pitch it to my team.
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