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Re: Go-Pro on Robot

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Originally Posted by GKrotkov View Post
I know this isn't part of the rules yet, but it might be interesting to see if FIRST HQ would be willing to let teams put gopros on their robot for promotional purposes? I know 1712 used camera footage from last year's robot to make a video recently.
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Originally Posted by samfruth View Post
Totally legal. We did it last year and it was pretty cool to see what went wrong and stuff like that. Have fun with it!
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Originally Posted by nstephenh View Post
Legal and quite fun. We put a small Sony camera on the robot last year (better quality than the gopro, but still protected). This year we used a Nvidia Jetson with a webcam that was part of our autonomous to record video, although it only did about 10fps on average. Go for it, and post some footage for us.
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Originally Posted by Elgin Clock View Post
We have 2 mounted on our robot this year. Works great for year end wrap up video footage or to show to potential sponsors or at our school's Board Of Ed. meetings.
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Originally Posted by 221Sarahborg View Post
It's definitely legal, we've used them since Ultimate Ascent. It can both be helpful and entertaining to see what you can with it. It was especially fun with Ultimate Ascent since our robot, Mater, was a dedicated climber robot.

Here's a video from our last match at GKC Regional using our GoPro. We lost this match, but I'm so proud of this robot and it's exciting to watch the climb go well every time: [x]
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