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Unread 30-11-2006, 07:04
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Re: Problems with the Gyro

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Originally Posted by Noah Kleinberg
That sounds like a problem with the bias. You should try calling Get_Gyro_Bias() and printing the return value, which I think should be something relatively close to 512 if I remember correctly, also make sure that you called Initialize_Gyro() at some point in the code, otherwise it might be the case that the variable holding the bias was never initialized, and contains a random number, offsetting all of your data by that number.
I havent used to gyro but if i recall it is supposed to be 512 for the x and 512 for the y when they gyro isnt moving. Then then you start moving it values will vary from 0 to 1023.