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I don't really see the point of this. Why don't you just define your stop position as "10" and then program it to stop at 10?

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...because this arm goes to eleven. It goes one farther.

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http://xkcd.com/670/

You are obviously a normal person!

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Because these goto 11

edit: others beat me to it

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This is awesome! Made my day.

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Love those colors :-) paint or powder coat?

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You know, some times youre at ten, and you just need that push off the clif, so you turn up to eleven...

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All powder!

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TURNT UP!!!

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Question: Why do teams put user input things on the robot? We've always put any toggles on the driver station and never had a problem.

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I'm guessing here that this team put a potentiometer on the pivot of this arm. The movement of the arm turns the shaft of the pot and they are taking a voltage drop across the resistor to translate into angle...the knob and the "11" are only decorative (but great).

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In the period of FRC history between ~2005 and ~2009, it was popular to use a user-input device was mounted on the robot to select between different autonomous modes.

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Many teams still do this. It makes it easy to switch "on the fly" when setting up for a match

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That is 100% correct. The POT gives us the position of the arm allowing us to then do presets on the arm, have more precise control in autonomous and plus... it can go to eleven just in case we need to move the arm just that little bit further ;).