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Re: Equipment list

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Originally Posted by InFlight View Post
I would also suggest looking into stocking some basic sensors ahead of time as well.

Multi-turn pots
Limit Switches
1/4 inch shaft encoders

If your team also covers the vision processing, whatever camera and boards you plan to use.
+1. Was so busy thinking about the tools for electrical I didn't think to include sensors. limit switches are something easy for any FRC participants to add to make their robots more robust/controllable; potentiometers, gyros, and encoders really aren't hard either nowadays with all the WPIlibs.
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