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Re: OI potentiometer for controlling turret

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Originally Posted by team 888 View Post
we are using a window motor. I went over the final design robot this morning and the drive train is in the way for placing the potentiometer. Eliminating this problem would call for some major design changes that we don't want to start at this point. Does anyone one have a simple code that will measure the rotation of the potentiometer on the oi?
I want to see the picture of this turret with absolutely no space in its entire 360° for a ¼" by ¼" potentiometer. (You couldn't point it the other way and have it over the drivetrain?)

Bottom line: You MUST put in a pot if you expect any decent control. (How can I emphasize it further?)

Give me sensors or give me death!

A sensor is worth a thousand words.

A sensor in hand is worth two in the bush.

Early to wire and early to read makes a robot healthy, wealthy, and wise.

When the pot's away, the arms will play.

A sensor a day keeps the mentor away.

A pot is a bot’s best friend.

The sensor is always nicer on the other side.

Hell hath no fury like a sensor ignored.

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Sensors are made, not born.

It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you read your pots.

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