Talons without libraries?

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Originally Posted by Jared

It may be easier to use pwm to communicate to the talon, and read the encoder on your micro controller. If your micro controller supports interrupts you can read the encoder easily. There's examples of this for the arduino that could be ported.

I was going to use the XMOS microcontroller to do it, and I guess it's possible to read the encoder on that. That seems like the easier way to do it at this point.