Bad luck, or poor execution?

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Originally Posted by nitneylion452

• IR distance sensors to measure distance from alliance wall

We used Sharp IR distance sensors to get the distance from the alliance wall at the Finger Lakes Regional and discovered that they do not give reliable numbers for the brightly lit diamond-plate wall at competitions. We switched to a sonar sensor (XL-MaxBotix-EZ2) for the Philadelphia Regional and were able to get a much better reading of the distance to the alliance wall.