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Originally Posted by mechanicalbrain
which would be pointless because then the driver could see it and use it to his advantage! also look at my further commentary i added.
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I'm not sure how you'd get an advantage in the situation I posed. If you're referring to the feed being on the screen, it's a non issue. In something like 14 matches in 2003 at Sacramento, we had a camera on our robot, and they probably showed the feed from it on the screen for less than 20 seconds total. Of that 20 seconds, it was all completely useless from a strategy standpoint. You couldn't even see anything well when it
was on the screen.
Basically, I think a camera on the robot is utterly pointless, unless it's something high quality like a camcorder than you can watch your matches on after the fact, and even then it doesn't seem very useful, since it'll be jarred around constantly, probably breaking it, and taking up valuable weight.