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Re: who's going to use eprom

EEPROM is perfect for control loop constants. You can hook up a controller to the OI to update a constant (say with a joystick wheel), and then press a button to "save" the data.

Functionally, you can think of EEPROM as a "hard drive" for your robot. Whatever you put in there stays even after you power off. But, like a hard drive, you are limited in space (though honestly there's plenty for most uses), and reading and writing is a bit slower than to working memory.