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Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 6:34
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Subject: Re: [VADCFLL-L]
calibration
I just wanted to thank everyone on the calibration advice- the
team quickly learned the downloadable calibration program and it didn't affect
the programming they had done at all- and they didn't need to change their
program- or use a computer at tournament. Our team had a lot of fun
today- thanks to everyone at the Science Museum of VA for making it a great
day for all. Their line following program did work during tournament and
they were excited about that. Good luck to all those teams that will be
moving on to State Championships and thanks to the whole community for their
support- it's great to have this network as a new coach. Laura Dysart-
Road Runners
A special thanks to Jamie and his son for a special phone call (they are
in Ohio we are in Richmond, Va) two nights prior to the tournament to talk
about the advance palette calibration block- it was too complicated to have
the kids learn and integrate two days before tournament- but the time he and
his son spent talking LD to my son in a teaching/mentoring mode was awesome-
and has motivated my son to learn more about advanced palette blocks for next
year. What a great community!
On Nov 4, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Stephen Scherr wrote:
Surprisingly, last year was the first time I had ever run into this
situation. Plus, I am pretty hard-nosed about computers in the
competition area.
Generally, other teams have written an NXT program to do their
calibration and they must have set a variable that could be used by the
program using the sensor.
I suggest you contact your tournament to see if some accomodation can
be reached to allow computer use for calibration outside the time of
the robot rounds, e.g. first thing in the morning.
Steve
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Laura Dysart
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wrote:
My team is using light sensor- they have been taking the average of
white and black readings and imputing that theshold into their program.
How can they callibrate at the tournament when they can't have a computer
at the table to adjust the threshold if necessary?
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