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Re: Solution for uniform ramming penalty calls

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Originally Posted by Kelly View Post
On the other hand, some sort of shock sensor in the kit would have been pretty neat for autonomous this year. Drive towards the rack until you hit it then hang a ring.
By special request, FIRST would ship any team an accelerometer and yaw rate gyro for free; the accelerometer gives you an analog value based on how much acceleration it is under at any given time. This could be used as a "shock sensor" the way you describe.

Yeah, my idea was fun to entertain for a little while...I see why it can't really be implemented. However, it is a fun idea to store all of this data on a dashboard computer. I just might have to try that...

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