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Re: Touchsensors in the Bumpers legal?

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Originally Posted by engunneer View Post
Are you trying to measure impacts, or just touched vs not touched?
The idea was to now, when the robot is crashing into things in order not to have it climb up walls (we had the problem during FTC that our robot would drive against a wall and then flip over).
I guess we will probably try distance sensors mounted a bit higher than the bumper. It will be harder to cover the whole width tough.

Thank you for everybody's fast reply.