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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
ok now which pressure sensor are you using?
FIRST supplied you with two - one that is analog and has three wires coming out of it
and one that is simply a switch - it has two screws to attach terminals - this is the one you want for the digital inputs - if thats the one you are using I cant imagine how you attached three wires to it
no wait, there are some things I dont want to know :c)
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Wow, your sig was either tailored to respond to my post, or that's kinda creepy.
We were using a switch with 3 terminals. It didn't look like the in-out part of the switch was deep enough to be analog (it may have been from some of the scrap electronics we have), but I guess that's part of the problem we have. On one hand, our robot is entirely student fabricated by monetary necessity, and will actually chinup easily and quickly, but electronically, it is quite basic. See whine below.
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The more I come on to this site, the more I realize that our school does not have a strong electronics team. I live 2 hours away from the team (I'm the programming mentor, and was the programmer last year), and it doesn't seem that anyone has been doing this type of research when I'm away. The programmer would program stuff, but nobody tried to hook up the photodetectors, nobody tried to figure out how to wire stuff to the RC, nobody thought about this stuff unless I was around. Oh well, maybe this year's seemingly inevitable weak autonomous mode, combined with last years non-existing autonomous mode will encourage more attention to be paid to the programming side of things.
I admit that I'm guilty of not knowing a thing about interrupts (and actually avoiding learning about them), but I've only been up to the robot 3 weekends over the build period (I've had swim meets on the other 2 weekends, and we didn't have a meeting on the first weekend, we were waiting for supplies), so I should definetely not be go-to guy on basically anything. Unfortunately, it appears next year will be even worse, as I won't be around to help (will have a school term for january-april), and there aren't many up-and-coming programmers to replace our graduating one this year.
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Edit: Ken, did you guys go to the Canadian Regional last year? I think we may have been allies on one of our first matches.