[Greg McKaskle]

I haven't used the pixy cam on an FRC robot, but I purchased one and I'll be using it for another robot competition. It has worked well in my initial testing with controlled lighting.

As stated. It is really more of a color-proximity sensor, a highly optimized and specialized sensor that does one thing well. If that is useful in the game, make use of it. If not, it is actually a pretty good exercise to make your own pixy cam using a USB camera and a little bit of processing code and extend it to do some additional measurements on the particles. But at that point, there isn't much need to incorporate the pixy cam. Just build your own. It is a great learning opportunity.

The optimization is the hard part. But I'm pretty sure most can make it fast enough for what they need on the robot. We aren't needing to measure the wing-beat speed of an unladen European swallow, are we?

Greg McKaskle