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Originally Posted by gblake
When you can't see something easily from the driver station (like a soccer ball hiding behind a Breakaway Bump), a complicated, expensive, hard to implement and hard to debug solution is a digital video camera beaming pictures to a driver. Another complicated one is using a camera and computer-vision software to detect soccer ball shapes on the field.
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If slightly off topic, I really liked one team's simple use of the Axis camera this year. I forget for the life of me who it was, but they had good possession, so their camera would look at the ground and see if something looks vaguely like a ball in front of them when they hit a button. If that was true, a button would light up and they could just drive forward and their grabber would pull it. No slow visual feedback to the DS, no trying to make the robot move automatically. I thought that was really cool, if not as stupid simple as a mirror.
While Shaker never got to the level of "one of the highest scoring robots" (We're working on that for Ramp Riot), we do have a decent highlight reel that shows off our striker abilities, a combination of a pretty decent vacuum and a talented driver.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYTJwKPH9vQ
I'd be interested in a "469 as midfeeder" highlight reel.