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Re: Programming tricks (and former trade secrets)

One of the neater things we did this year has to do with our arm. We use a pot to get position feedback about the location of the arm. Out of the 0-1023 range the pot can give us, we only use about 250. On every activation of the robot, the contoller reads the initial pot value, and makes it the temporary zero for the match. Hence, even if the pot slips between matches, or moves, or we have to change it, it still works.