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Just out of curiosity, did you have any gain problems with the camera sensor (that seems to be the problem with our CMUcam more than anything)?
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Sunglasses solved that!
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And how well did it track for you?
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Very well; it never lost a lock, either on the practice field or on the competition field.
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Was it distracted, as the CMUcam was so often, by vapor lights in the shop?
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Nope. It even ignored the big projector at the regionals!
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Did you pull any Innovation in Control awards at competition?
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Yup, one at St. Louis. At Midwest, the arm change fouled up the autonomous code too badly for it to work.
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One other thing: did you find a good way of mounting this?
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We zip-tied the cameras to a long piece of angle iron with holes drilled for the lenses to stick out. When this was mouted at the top of the robot, it looked like a praying mantis. This prompted the name "Buggy" for the cameras.
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