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Re: optical mouse motion sensor thread

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Originally Posted by edBringas View Post
I went to a training hosted by Team 340, one of the beta testers of the new control system and remember be told that the new Jaguar motor controllers have built in encoders. Though it takes the fun out of making encoders it should save us some time

-Ed
There are no encoders built into the Jaguars. There is a micro that can read an encoder through the CAN bus, but use of the CAN bus is against the rules this year.
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