[zachriggle]

Woah, rewind.

I've been confused as (heck) with everyone talking about ADC's, and various encoders. Please, /please/ explain to me what is mean by all of this. I, by all means, consider myself a very compitent coder (probably too much so). However, I've never dealt with this sort of stuff before (I do systems security in Linux\Windows\*BSD environments).

How would I use this YRG as a compass? Would I have to zero it out at the beginning of every match (so that, on its starting block, it knows that to one side is its side, and on the other side, it must score against)?

What's this 'encoder' stuff everyone speaks of? I'm confused as per the concept, as well as what the HECK a quadrature encoder is.

In addition, where/how do I mount the GTS in order for it to count gears? I don't understand how they're supposed to work, so I can't make much use of them. The guy-in-charge-of-the-operation is too busy just trying to get the launcher mechanism finished and on the chassis to explain this stuff to me (Pretty soon, we might just end up with a very expensive RC Car).