Thread: desktop hardware to demo PID ?
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desktop hardware to demo PID ?
I'd like to build a simple, preferrably desktop demo hardware platform that can be used to demonstrate the usage of the wiplib pid related classes and to clearly show students the effect of adjusting tuning constants etc

- one implementation could be a linear demo that could be mounted horizontally and vertically (vertically to demo the effect of gravity)
(car on a rail, motor, geared chain drive, encoder, emergency end limit switches, possibly a geared 10 turn pot as an alternative to encoder)

- not quite sure how to demo rotational PID

Anyone have any suggestions, seen anything applicable anywhere ?