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Help with Programming Pnuematics

Hi,
Our team recently lost the majority of its programmers and where switching over to Java, i understand java a little and where using robot builder to make it a bit easier. My question is how do you code pneumatic's in general and even then how would you use that in robot builder? I lurked a little to try and find out but my adventure didn't give me anything. So any help would be Greatly appreciated!!

Re: Help with Programming Pnuematics

Quote:

Originally Posted by peng432 (Post 1332830)

You'll want to create a Solenoid first.

Code:

Solenoid solenoid1 = new Solenoid(1);

Then you'll want to tell the solenoid to activate.

Code:

solenoid1.set(true);

Or deactivate.

Code:

solenoid1.set(false);

If you have a double acting cylinder you'll need teo solenoids and active and deactivate them opposite of each other, or use a DoubleSolenoid.

Re: Help with Programming Pnuematics

thanks for the reply,
Our team is using a double solenoid would the code still be the same or would their be any minor changes?

Re: Help with Programming Pnuematics

Quote:

Originally Posted by peng432 (Post 1333204)

thanks for the reply,
Our team is using a double solenoid would the code still be the same or would their be any minor changes?

Code:

DoubleSolenoid solenoid = new Solenoid(1, 2);

solenoid.set(DoubleSolenoid.Value.kForward);

kReverse would fire it the opposite direction.

Give that a try. You can also do something like:

Code:

Solenoid solenoid1 = new Solenoid(1);

Solenoid solenoid2 = new Solenoid(2);

solenoid1.set(true);

solenoid2.set(false);

Re: Help with Programming Pnuematics

Quote:

Originally Posted by peng432 (Post 1333204)

thanks for the reply,
Our team is using a double solenoid would the code still be the same or would their be any minor changes?

You would use the DoubleSolenoid class instead of the Solenoid class:

Code:

// Create a new DoubleSolenoid with the forward channel in port 1,

// and the reverse channel in port 2

DoubleSolenoid doubleSolenoid = new DoubleSolenoid(1, 2);

In addition, the call to DoubleSolenoid#set() is a bit different than Solenoid#set(). Instead of taking a boolean value, it takes a DoubleSolenoid.Value object:

Code:

// Set the solenoid to the 'forward' position

doubleSolenoid.set(DoubleSolenoid.Value.kForward);

// Set the solenoid to the 'reverse' position

doubleSolenoid.set(DoubleSolenoid.Value.kReverse);

// Set the solenoid to the 'off' position

doubleSolenoid.set(DoubleSolenoid.Value.kOff);

You can find more details in the FRC javadocs, located at "C:\Users\user\sunspotfrcsdk\doc\javadoc\index.html" on any computer that has the FRC Java plugins installed.