Kinect is Legal for Both Drive Station and Field Use (Here’s why)

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Kinect is Legal for Both Drive Station and Field Use (Here’s why)

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14-01-2011, 14:13

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Re: Kinect is Legal for Both Drive Station and Field Use (Here’s why)

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

The Kinect depth sensor uses an IR laser to generate those dots. That runs afoul of the FRC robot rules.

Interesting. I (obviously) had no idea. I had seen the IR-camera youtube videos and remembered the dots being so big that I figured they were generated via a non-laser IR emitter somehow.

Edit: Now having re-watched the videos, it makes a lot more sense that it's a laser.

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