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Re: Camera pan/tilt kit

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Originally Posted by 1075guy View Post
I'm starting to lean a bit more towards what 1114 has done in previous years and fix-mount the camera to the chassis. Pan and tilt assemblies seem to be alot of extra code for limited benefit. This year, with the low traction i could maybe see panning, but tilting is simply not necessary. The vision targets are a fixed distance off the ground.
tilting could be very useful as you get closer to the object, and it runs just out of what would be the vertical viewplane on a fixed camera.
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