How do you program limit switches?

[Negative 9]

Originally Posted by Zer0

Im working on the same thing for my team for tomorrow. What are you trying to control with the switch?

A motorized car jack that stops working when it goes too low or too high

[dheerm]

DigitalInput name = new DigitalInput(slot)


fill in slot with the slot on the DIO that the switch is plugged into and name with whatever you want to call it.

name.get() will return you the boolean indicating whether the switch is pressed or Unpressed. If it's wired right, true will be pressed and false will be unpressed

[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by Negative 9

A motorized car jack that stops working when it goes too low or too high

Scissor jack? Very suave just to think of it.

[Negative 9]

Originally Posted by Bill_B

Scissor jack? Very suave just to think of it.

Yup! We use it to change the angle of our shooter.

[F22Rapture]

Originally Posted by Negative 9

Yup! We use it to change the angle of our shooter.

Awesome! So are we

Here's ours:

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...42295922_n.jpg

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...83332209_n.jpg

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...17571241_n.jpg

[arithehun]

For some of you using command based programming, I noticed that the DigitalIOButton class wasn't working properly, so I programmed my own DigitalButton class using the very-functional DigitalInput class.

public class DigitalButton extends Button {
    private int channel;
    DigitalInput buttonInput;
    
    public DigitalButton(int channel) {
        this.channel = channel;
        buttonInput = new DigitalInput(channel);
    }

    public int getChannel() {
        return this.channel;
    }
    
    public boolean get() {
        return buttonInput.get();
    }
    
}