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Re: Programming tricks (and former trade secrets)

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Originally Posted by Eldarion View Post
After calibrating once at our home practice field, it was literally "set it and forget it". We did not have to recalibrate once at either of the two regionals! It even handled a dim target light on the practice field.
Whoaa, cool! I do wish that this was open-source, or at least a few more details were included on the website...but good job! I did consider briefly a PC with a webcam onboard--that would be much easier to deal with than a CMUcam...but I'm also starting to lose confidence in the camera module. The lens seems to distort the image horribly, and it's not a defect because it does it on 2 cameras. I don't know as if I'll ever use the CMUcam. Too complicated...

My little bit: stay SIMPLE! And make sure the basics are done first! Autonomous mode does no good if the arm control module doesn't work...I should know, I just got it done yesterday during our last build window before Waterloo. I know I can do much better next year.

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