Camera for the Robot

[GCentola]

So do you think the people at FIRST have finally gotten the camera right this year?

[Alan Anderson]

What was wrong with it before?

[CrazyCarl461]

I believe it's our job to get the camera right.

[Chris is me]

Who says there's a camera this year?

[synth3tk]

Wait, what was wrong with it?

[Radical Pi]

I think the camera, after fixing a few bugs, worked perfectly fine last year. Very little lag in the live video, tracking seemed to work fine (non-competition testing), and on the most part (ignoring the build problems wpilib faced) it didn't cause much of a coding issue. The only real big problem was the error handling in WPILib occasionally tripping watchdogs

[InItToWinIt]

There was too much work to do with the camera and i felt it wasn't that important to the game so we basically put it aside. if the challenge relied heavily on the camera. we might have to deal with it.

[wilsonmw04]

The camera worked almost out of the box last year with LV. We set it up and were able to track targets within a short period of time. FIRST has never made a certain piece of the KOP a necessity to play the game well.They only give you the tool and let you decide whether the cost/benefit ratio makes sense for your team and the challenge that year.