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Re: Noisy Accelerometer
Quick update on our situation.

Today we accomplished many tests. Got assistance from another team who aided us in debugging our situation. There is not a current going through the robot. The "noisy-ness" still occurs whether we push the robot (without power) or drive the robot (with power). However, the noise does not occur when we "swing" the robot with our humans. We also let the robot sit in free-space and in a anti-static bags and it did not fix it. We tried a foam attachment to cancel out vibrations, not much help there. So we have found nothing to filter out this "noise", and we believe to have "broken" our accelerometer, as it returns nothing now but -5 G's (which apparently FIRST won't be selling).

So.... we're out of ideas...

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