[brianaong]

My team's programming this year has been jumbled up; from trying to switch to Java at the beginning of the season, reverting back to LabView two weeks ago, having our head programmer drop out, and having a completely new programming team (consisting of two new members), we're clueless. So far we've been able to worm our way with programming the drive and our pulley system but we stuck at pneumatics.

Would it be possible for someone to help explain everything about pneumatics in layman's terms? (And if it's not too much, help with the actually programming.) We don't really have a set and consistent programming mentor so any help would be appreciated to the fullest.

We're using two cylinders and a double solenoid. Our cylinders are mounted outwards from each other with an arm on the end of each. We plan for the robot to clamp on the sides of the totes/bins by releasing the air. We want to be able to control how much air is released from the cylinders because the arms, in theory, should adjust to the width of both of the bins and all sides of the totes.

Thank you!