[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Doug Leppard

So you did the initialize routine before start of automode? If so that is good.

Yes.

Originally Posted by Doug Leppard

I thought the gyro once initialized had to sit still for a second before being moved, not a micro second?

While the gyro is initializing, you cannot move it. Once it is initialized, then it's all right to move it as much as you want, so long as you don't exceed the maximum degrees/second of the gyro. (If this occurs, you won't break the sensor, you'll just get saturated readings.)

If the KoP gyro has the same specs as last year, they can only sense a maximum of 90^o per second. So we used the KoP gyro on our arm, and purchased a 300^o per second gyro from SparkFun Electronics to use for drive-train related things on our 2007 robot.