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Re: A few questions regarding the rules

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Originally Posted by sumadin View Post
We looked around some more and found:
2. R79 says we can connect a laptop to get 'feedback' from the robot. The question is, does feedback refer to technical data, like values from the PWM, voltages, etc., or does it also refer to the video from the CMUcam?
Look at R63 and R66. Since the robot controller does not have the ability to broadcast video, any secondary broadcast of video would be disallowed by these rules. R109 does provide for a wireless camera to be installed in certain situations, but this rule is only specifically referring to "non functional decorations". If the camera is being used by the drivers, it could affect the outcome of the match, and is therefore functional and not a decoration (a non-functional decoration camera would only transmit to a recording device for later playback or to the event video mixer for display on the big screen).
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