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Get Gyro Reset / Reset Gyro Block

output-onlinepngtools__231_.png  This block works for both EV3 Robot and Ruby Robot!  output-onlinepngtools__101_.png

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The Get Gyro Reset / Reset Gyro block is extremely useful whenever you want to repeat a turn, without accumulating the total degrees turned. For example: If you need the robot to turn 90 degrees 4 times.

This example code drives the robot along a square path. The Gyro sensor helps the robot turn 90 degrees at each corner using a Wait Until Gyro block (note: because the robot keeps turning a tiny bit after the Gyro sensor senses 82 degrees, the end result will be a 90-degree turn).

The Reset block is located right before the turn, to make sure that the Gyro sensor is at 0 degrees. This makes sure that the turn is as accurate as possible, since the robot starts at 0; otherwise, accumulated errors might interfere with the turning process.

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Note that when using loops, the Reset block should be placed inside the loop so that each iteration of the loop is as accurate as possible.

  

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