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Re: Video Explaining PID to Beginners

Very well done video, especially for describing the concept to someone who doesn't know anything about PID or why and how they should use it. However, you did skip over the part about how annoying and time consuming it is to find the proper constants and how sometimes not having one of the constants helps if you have slow loop times or noisy signals and other things that happen on real robots. I understand that this was just an introduction to PID, but I felt like it would have also been beneficial to mention something about how sometimes with real data, the graph doesn't turn out as well as the graphs you show do.
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