Programming Gyros

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally posted by Cory
I am positive that 2 Gyros are allowed. At both inspections in Sacramento and SVR, inspectors saw that we were using two, noth on the robot and on the BOM. At SVR, we had an incredibly thorough inspection and they were also not questioned.

Hmm.. unless you bought one gyro from Future or Digikey then I'm afraid you're violating the rules. Check page 28 of the Robot Rules - Yaw Rate Sensor Quantity 1 was included in the kit. If you follow the additional parts flow-chart you'll see that you'll end up in the box that says "Is the part an Additional Electronics Component (refer to rule K5)?" Rule K5 is the one that says it must come from Digikey or Future and no part can cost more than $100.

The fact that the inspectors didn't catch it doesn't make it legal - having been an inspector at Midwest I can tell you that inspectors don't have time to go through the whole list of rules and additional parts and everything - basically except for inspecting for obvious violations or safety problems we have to rely on the teams to follow the rules on their own.

BTW, what are you measuring with two gyros? I know we really wish we were able to use 2 so we could use one for our angular position and one for ramp detection... Is that what you're doing?