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Originally Posted by cpapplefamily

This is my first year helping a team with some robot code. We are focusing on the command base robot model. We would like to do some acceleration control and other timed loops. I'm familiar with Vex and have done similar control using while loop and using a wait instruction at the end to use as the time calculation. With the FRC system do i or can i use a loop and wait code or use the FRC periodic cycle? I may not be using the right term to describe what I'm looking for but I hope you understand and can direct me.

Thanks

If you are using the command based structure then using long running loops and wait commands can be very detrimental. What you want to do is us the execute methods of your commands to the time. You can treat the execute method like it is the body of a loop.