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Re: motor programming

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Originally Posted by itwasntme455 View Post
What is the wait 20 for in the bottom left corner?
It's a throttle. It makes it so that the joystick button is only checked every 20 milliseconds inside the large While loop. Without it, the code in that loop will be running As Fast As Possible, which is undesired for two reasons. First, new joystick data only arrives every 20 milliseconds, and there's no point in checking any faster than that. Second, and more importantly, if the code is running without any delays, it can starve the rest of the program of CPU resources.
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