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Originally Posted by Matt Krass
A lack of availability of parts
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A little more information on that, as I'm sure it is affecting many other teams right now:
Due to the EU RoHS directive, which took affect Jan 1, 2007, you more or less can
not get the ADXRSxxxEB series gyro board. The 401 seems to be an exception, however the 80 degrees/second maximum isn't near the speed of an average FRC robot.
We are using the ADXRS300EB for development, and although we could more than likely find a currently RoHS compliant gyroscope, with the amount of time it would take for us to purchase and receive the gyro as well as modify all of our code/documentation it would be too tight of a squeeze.
Rest assured that when this is fully completed, it will be a great system.
Thanks for the understanding,
Mike