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Unread 05-03-2006, 15:54
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Re: Camera does not search in autonomous mode after reset

Come to think of it, we had "intermittent" camera initialization problems from day one. Most of the time we assumed it was from a low backup battery so we were constantly swapping those in and out. Camera initialization always failed for autonomous mode when the competition port was connected. We struggled a long time with assuming we were not starting up the robot the same way every time. It was not until Friday night at the regional when we were finally able to consistently reproduce the problem in the pits. That was when we decided to try a non-static initializer.

And I no longer have access to the robot to write a test to prove the static initialization conditions.

The static initializater for camera initialization is in Kevin's bells and whistles camera code.
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Last edited by Keith Watson : 05-03-2006 at 16:08. Reason: added two more notes