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Originally Posted by Plepel
Hello all! This is my first post, so bear with me.
My team was wondering, how reflective are the feet at the end of the spider legs? We had the cool idea that we could mount the camera and an LED to the end of out arm, and then have is search for a reflection of the LED, thus finding where the actual foot it. Would this be possible? The schematics say that they are made out of "bright aluminum", which would be reflective enough, but our members who went to the local kickoff said that the metal was a dull gray. Does anyone know?
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Plepel,
The bottom of the goal will be aluminum diamond plate. It is fairly reflective but will become scratched as robots interact and contact the surface. It is unlikely that your source LED will be considered to interact with other robots unless it is the same color as the goal lights. In any case, teams looking for the goal lighting should be looking up and not down at the floor. You will be subject to inspection on this component at each event. I hope you can make it work, I would like to see it.