Thread: COTS Parts made just for FIRST Robots
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Unread 04-05-2005, 18:12
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Re: COTS Parts made just for FIRST Robots
As long as we are wishing, I suppose we should ask for IFI to go to a serial link (I2C ?) with perhaps 2 RJ-47 (phone jack) connectors that would let us daisy chain Victors, fuse blocks, Spikes, etc.

I would much rather have a single line going from Victor to Victor than what we have now.

While we are redesigning the Victor, how about a PID feedback loop built right in. There is a very good paper from Circuit Cellar Inc here that tells how we could all have PID control without encoders, using Back EMF of the motors to determine speed and position of the motors.

I would love to have this built into the Victor control.


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