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Originally Posted by JohnFogarty
Everyone's roboRIO has an accelerometer built into it.
If a team can't use that to tell the difference between being flat on the floor or sitting on a defense before firing... I will be very sad.
I might even go around at events making sure every team that plans on shooting, that our team would play with in quals at least, can utilize that feature to ensure no fouls.
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Accelerometer =/= Gyro. Although 2 dimensions worth of data can be derived from the accelerometer, for most teams, this is not worth the effort. The RoboRIO's accelerometer has a lot of drift associated with it. This was also discussed
Here
Even if a team decides to implement this, they still have to reorient to face the goal and shoot, for which they need to determine their distance and angle to the goal. If their vision is capable of this, it negates the need for a gyro in the first place.