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Re: Trackballs and CMUcam

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Originally Posted by SL8 View Post
I was thinking about doing this during our fix-it window but I was wondering if the ultrasonic sensor was necessary?
From my understanding, what the ultrasonic does is give you a surefire way of knowing when you passed under the ball, allowing the program to know when to change its state rather than guessing based on dead reckoning and timer/encoder based loops.
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