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Re: Sensors!

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Originally Posted by Doug G View Post
Temperature sensor (thermocouple), I bet there's a team out there at some point who put this on a robot.
We slapped a set of those on our practice robot, and used them to tell us when to give the robot a break to prevent overheating. Really useful, and I think all our future robots are going to be sporting one per motor.