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Re: No robot available to test code on

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Originally Posted by smackee618 View Post
Awesome pointers. I really like the idea of separating the debugging and tuning into correctness testing and parameter tweaking components. Thanks very much. Hopefully, come competition day, we'll only need to worry about tweaking a bunch of PIDs.
Just a hint for tuning a bunch of PID's quickly. Make a box with 3 pots that plug into the driver station and write some code to take them and set there values to the loop dynamically.

I'm not a labview person so you might be able to do that with labview instead of pots, but that's how we old fashion people on my team do it.