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Re: Ever use a helicopter heading hold gyro before?

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Originally Posted by Jetweb View Post
The only difference between a heading hold gyro and the regular gyro they give us in the kit is that in the Heading hold Gyro there is a separate chip (of which I know nothing about) that interprets the input from the driver/flyer.

I’m not sure if it would work with the FRC controller, but if it doesn’t than you can do the same thing with the kit gyro and some creative code.
Yes, that's true. My point was that you can offload that processing and not deal with it at all. It would be straight-forward to use an edge triggered interrupt and a timer to measure the pulse width of the input PWM signal. What I don't know is how well those units are suited to driving a robot.