Got Gyro?

[kaszeta]

Originally Posted by EricS-Team180

The SparkFun website says that their stock is down to under 20, so order one quick

I'm convinced that somewhere, the various inventory control guys at Digi-key, Newark, and Sparkfun all wonder why every January there is a run on ADXRS300 gyros, Grayhill 63R128 encoders, and the other various components many 'bots use that I can easily buy the rest of the year, but suddenly become out of stock during the build season.

[Danny Diaz]

Originally Posted by kaszeta

I'm convinced that somewhere, the various inventory control guys at Digi-key, Newark, and Sparkfun all wonder why every January there is a run on ADXRS300 gyros, Grayhill 63R128 encoders, and the other various components many 'bots use that I can easily buy the rest of the year, but suddenly become out of stock during the build season.

Hah, yeah, yet another reason we tend to purchase hard-to-find items during the off-season. We see FIRST like Christmas, do all your shopping for things you know you need or that you're low in stock of in order to beat the Christmas rush.

Ho Ho Ho.
-Danny

[tdeprince]

We are thinking about using the provided gyro this year. Does anyone have instructions as to how to connect it to the FRC controller?

Thanks, TEAM 203

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by tdeprince

We are thinking about using the provided gyro this year. Does anyone have instructions as to how to connect it to the FRC controller?

Thanks, TEAM 203

You'll want to use the three left-most connection holes labeled
G 5 T
B R W

T stands for "twist" and is your signal wire.
5 stands for your 5 volt power wire
G is ground

See http://www2.usfirst.org/2007comp/oth...r%20Manual.pdf