Changing parameters on the fly?

[Ether]

Originally Posted by DjScribbles

Does anyone know a slick way of changing some parameters on the fly. My wife is going to attempt to tune our PID routines we have setup with crumby default values; and I want to avoid modifying a #define in code and redeploying 80 times in a day.

I've thought about attempting fopen or something like that, but that still requires me to filezilla something down there ( or SSH/terminal somehow into the robot)

If the fopen is on the right track, I'm not quite sure how I go about cracking into the robot, so a link to a guide or some instructions for that would be awesome.

Are there any sneaky methods that we could use from the driver station maybe?

Thanks in advance!

You could program some joystick buttons to bump the gains up and down.

Crude, but simple and effective.

Each time you bump a button, display the actual value on your driver station so you know where you're at.