Powercells - Anyone counting them

[mbhoxsie]

Is anyone using sensors to try and count how many powercells that are being carried on a robot at any given time?

Looking at the field, it looks like visibility could be limited from certain driver stations, and we are wondering if it would be helpful to have a sensor on the robot intake and another on the shooter that keeps count of the number of powercells we are carrying.

My first thought is using IR sensors to increment and decrement counters in the code.

Has anyone else tried to tackle this??

Thanks in advance.

[typeusernamehere]

How are teams keeping track of controlled power cells?

What type of sensors are teams using to keep track of how many power cells they are controlling? We are having a difficult time thinking of how to count power cells while intaking multiple at once. From a strategy perspective I would prefer to not have the drivers need to count at all times how many power cells they have, but I’m struggling to think of how to keep track of the total power cells easily.

Here’s a discussion on this already

[mbhoxsie]

Awesome… Thanks…