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Unread 09-02-2006, 10:01
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Re: Calculating Angle to fire at

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Originally Posted by dlavery
If you like what you see with the camera system, please thank each of these folks for their efforts. If you don't like it, you can blame me.
Well stated and my personal hat goes off to their efforts. I know we tackled the camera last year and *almost* had it working, but using reflected light from non-controlled sources introduced just plain TOO MANY variables. The emitted green light this year will hopefully eliminate those vagaries.

Our only concern at this point is the light warm-up period. I'm sure hoping they have the lights on *BEFORE* autonomous begins. Our camera takes 17 seconds to "see the light" from a cold start. After warming up for a bunch of minutes, it will still recognize it nearly instantaneously after a 40 second off period.

If the lights are not kept on most of the time, I suspect that the initial autonomous action will be entertaining for the audience and disappointing to the programmers!

Lynn (D) - Team Voltage 386