How'd you do it?

[Daru]

I've been working with the camera a bit throughout the season, it really perks my interest. None of the team wants it on there except me, so I am still pushing them to let me work on it.

How do you turn your robot to the light? We don't have a turret, so we need to turn the entire robot.

I've come up with two ideas:
1)you mount the camera so it can pivot on its own with the servos, then turn the robot until the camera is straight.
2) you mount the camera stationary (no servos), and turn the entire robot until you lock on.

We're only talking Pan here, not tilt.

Which do you think is the better idea?

The only way I can see to do it the first way, is to lock on, then move the robot a little, then lock on and move a little more until the camera is straight.

The second way, you move the entire robot in a search pattern which seems a tad 'dangerous' to me, especially with my lack of programming ability


On our robot, it would be a lot easier to mount the camera stationary (i've already got the spot picked out), but we would then need to move the robot itself in the search pattern. This would also make the tilt adjustment VERY easy, being a simple "run a motor until it lines up" to tilt our shoot angle. This is probably what I will end up doing if no one sees a problem in it

Looking forward to your opinions!

~Dave
team 706