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Re: RS775 Gearboxes

A. Trimpots drift. Encoders don't.
B. The same idea could be replaced with "why do this in the age of the limit switch?" and the objection is the same (though with slightly different hardware and software, without quite so much elegance).
C. With 20 minutes of LabView training, I was able to bring an arm up to whatever height I wanted to by pushing the appropriate button.
D. If you haven't made things autonomous, then you can't score in autonomous...
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