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Re: White Paper Discuss: Code and Walkthrough for Global Positioning System using IR Sensors

Just a couple of questions and comments:

1. Satellite GPS does not use the angle the signal is traveling at, it uses the distance from the satellite to the device

2. I believe that you do not need to use your "firstrun" variable and loop to initialize the static variables, i believe you can just define statics when you declare them

Code:
static int myVar = 5;
and the definition will only happen the first time the function is called, so the variable won't be changed by the definition/declaration statement in successive function calls.

3. Have you run this code on a FRC? It seems like it, along with the neccesary parts of the default code, could start to cause "default_routine" to start missing cycles as some people have mentioned has happened, if this code is running in every cycle in "default_rountine".

I like the use of a 4th sensor for error correction, pretty cool. If you have used this system, how did it work, if not, post about it when you do.
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