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Re: General Labview Help

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Originally Posted by eyeswideopened View Post
They want me to make the paddle at the bottom control the throttle
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(the throttle is for the chain drive which powers the frisbee thrower)
This gets done the same way you use the regular joystick movement to control the drive motors. You're just taking the control from a different axis.
Here's an example, but change the axis 2(y) to axis 3 (throttle), and Joystick 1 becomes Joystick 3 or whichever joystick you name to control all this:


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and then use the trigger to shoot the frisbee.
That would be your pneumatics. So something like this (but change Joystick 1 to Joystick 3 again):



The compressor also needs code like this to run:


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They want buttons 6 and 7 to be the up and down for the lifting arms while climbing. I am not sure how to make 6 just motor up and 7 just motor down.
There's been a bunch of others asking how to do just this.
It does depend on what device you'll be using to control the arm motor (Spike or motor controller). But here's a general answer from somebody else that assumes a speed controller is being used:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1121889&postcount=8
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