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Re: Picking a gyro for field-centric swerve control

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Originally Posted by Geek 2.0 View Post
What if you created a "calibrate" mode, where the driver can push a button to recalibrate a gyro to what the compass sensor is outputting when they think there is a significant amount of drift. That way you don't have the interference but you still have the consistency.
Sounds pretty reasonable to me. The next step would probably be to parse through the compass module (magnetometer module, technically) data sheet to see if there are any "gotchas". I seem to recall that the update rate on such devices might be a little on the slow side, but that may have changed over the years since I did my initial research. Let us know how well it works if you try it...
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