My team is building a Hook Intake, but we have no idea how to make a Color Sorter that can work is Autonomous? Help is appreciated.
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Color sensor but I don’t think it’s very reliable.
If you know a certain color ring is picked up than optical sensor to know when to activate it.
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color sensor that when the wrong color is detected it slows down or speeds up in a way to fling it. i’ve seen it work by making it breifly halt
Koko2008zzzz. A color sensor is a good idea, but I think it is unnecessary, as I’m assuming your driver has eyes, and is not color blind. and while it may be a good design for autonomous, and maybe notebook, but I think with a little tuning, you will be able to pick up the desired color during auton, without adding a new senor. Good theory though.
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@Liam_5405 right but how should we do it in auton, like a function or while loop?
@Alex3D we planned on using the optical sensor and having a wide range of hue because blue and red are far apart in hue.
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I am the driver, and I design the robot. I for sure have eyes lol but I think it would be much easier to have a color sorter in driver just so I don’t have to be worried about picking up the wrong Ring. I think I won’t do it for auton but I will for driver. Thank everyone for the help.
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I’m not our programmer but I would probably have it set up in a if then statement of if optical sensor detects other color, pause motor temporarily (with a hook just time it of stopping right before placement on the stake
I guess you have a point. I am not the driver on my team, so I wouldn’t know about the struggle, but if you find it more helpful with the sensor while noting it would take some coding and a little extra time during the match, then go for it. Good luck this season.
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@Liam_5405 Yes that is most likely what I will do for Driver Control.
@Ethan26 Thank you and have a great season as well.
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