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Originally Posted by Dr Nick
For all the hype they put on the camera the past two years, I would have sworn they would have done more with it this year somehow. I was really looking forward to working with it again  (though would liked to see something other than the green light again) |
You can still use it. We are doing some testing, but the Camera is a great sensor. We've had no problems using it.
In 2005, was tough, though we did manage to find the Vision Tetra on the field, lighting was the main problem.
In 2006, we nailed the auto mode every time and if someone hit us, we still tried to correct and get a second aim. We also used the camera in tele-mode to "auto aim". Driver pulled the trigger and let the robot take aim, rather than human take the aim, worked pretty good for us.
The only troubles we noticed was the backup battery. We changed the backup battery after every match in 2005, then we we got the rechargeable circuit in 2006 for the battery that helped out ALOT...Camera was rock solid both years for us. In 2007 we was a lifter only robot, so no camera for us. we had no grippers to handle rings.