Controlling Motor Turns Autonomous

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Originally Posted by btcshields6

it looks to me as if that gives me encoder information, not actual ways to affect the motors with that information.

If the motor and the encoder are both mechanically linked to the gearbox, then the encoder can give information about the motor.

To get a jump-start to understanding PID, you may find the following YouTube video quite helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOuR...n0gJUQ&index=2

Others can help you with LabVIEW implementation details.