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Unread 01-01-2007, 02:34
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Re: pic: Thousands of manhours of work... coming '07

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Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri View Post
These are some things that flashed on the LCD when we started up last season:
Battery Voltage
Gyro Rate (to make sure it was calibrated correctly.)
Ultrasonic sensor distance (sometimes the plug came out and the distance was 0. We drove backwards...)

These things can be checked in another fashion, but in the heat of competition, its easy to miss something.
177 used a dashboard for exactly the same purposes, and we caught some otherwise extremely serious problems before they lost us a match. I think I am smelling an episode of The Blue Alliance here...