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Re: Sensor doubt!

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Originally Posted by Alfredp832 View Post
Hello! last week we were talking about sensor and their aplications so we were thinking on using a magnetic sensor for a team project, the question is FIRST allow us to use them? and if its allowed, does Labview can program it?
418 has several magnetic sensors on our robot this year, we use them for detecting position. For example we have an impact plate on our shooter, and on the back of the impact plate we have several magnets; the magnets trigger a reed switch mounted on our robot and they tell the robot when the impact plate has reached its maximum pullback position.

The magnetic sensor acts just like any digital microswitch would, when the magnet gets near it the sensor closes the circuit and changes value. LabVIEW reads the DIO line just fine.

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