What COTS parts would you like to see?

[Rangel]

Originally Posted by marshall

Ain't gonna happen anytime soon for a lot of reasons. Unless of course all you want is the PIXY CAM with a CAN interface... you can make that happen without a whole lot of effort... use the HERO board to do it maybe?

All that being said, 900 is actively talking about how to "cheesecake" vision onto other robots in the future... no idea what that means at the moment but we're talking about it.

The biggest issue with vision isn't the vision or the detection. It's getting more teams to add encoders to their drivetrains and mechanisms. You need feedback to make use of the vision data.

I'd love to see more COTS options for encoder integration.

I would also love to see the CIM-Encoder that AM introduced this season improved. It's hollow and the little center spacer plate isn't square. Make it filled in, more robust, and square the center plate.

And I REALLY hope brushless is coming based on what CTRE was showing off. I'd love to see it happen.

Why couldn't a gyro be an alternative to having encoders on the robot? If the gyro was part of the board, it could likely still be kept all together. I'm not sure if we even used the encoders for our vision tracking this year and we hit every autonomous shot at champs. I'd imagine a game with a bigger goal would be even better.

Edit: Granted, we did use the encoders for going forward a set distance in teleop. This probably would effect our accuracy in autonomous. I would imagine not by too much though. In teleop though, auto tracking would be unaffected by not having encoders.