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Re: Programmers: I Have A Challenge For You

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Originally Posted by Tom Line View Post
I'm curious. Are you aware that a single hard collision can easily throw a gyro off by hundreds of degrees?
I'm just curious have you tried using a compass to re-zero the gyro? I haven't tried it but from what I've read it seems to create an almost drift less gyro as the compass doesn't have the issues of drift.

note: running a compass is an expensive operation so it should only be run to reset the gyro which is less expensive (or so I've read...)