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Re: Best Sensor for Unlimited Rotation Swerve

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Originally Posted by Pault View Post
Definitely seems like something that we should do. I have actually been thinking about doing a similar system for a while, but I never though of using it to zero potentiometers. This could have saved us a lot of time.

Only thing is that we should keep the text file in the roboRIO's file system, not on the laptop. Seems like that will cut out a lot of complexity in the system, prevent any problems switching between laptops, and allow us to use different constants for a practice robot/chassis.
So there you go, CD community. If Paul goes along with something I propose you can be pretty sure it's not the worst idea I've ever had ;-) Seriously though. Paul was the core of Overclocked's coding team this year. He's top shelf. His opinion carries a lot of weight with me.

Even so, YMMV.

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