Potentiometer 5 or 6 detents

[kaszeta]

Originally Posted by Adam Shapiro

The RC has the same thing going for it. The only thing I would be concerned with however is that using a rig like this might be a bit cumbersome. Personally I'd use a 100k ohm potentiometer, rather than a rotary switch, and just set specific ranges as certain programs. This could also be reprogrammed to allow for smaller ranges -> more programs. That's up to you though. The math/physics behind the voltage divider idea would stay the same though, you'd just hook it to an analog input on the RC rather than one on the OI.

That's what Team 95 has done several times. We just had a pot on the robot, no detents, and ranges marked by the knob corresponding to each strategy. With the little knob we used, this allowed us to do up to 12 positions[1] without worrying about ambiguity, although after BAE we realized that we were only really using 4 of these positions, so we reprogrammed the switches.

I think next year I'll encourage the team to make something for the OI, however.


[1] Which meant that the switch went from 0 to 11. One team member asked "can't it just to to 10 instead." Of course, I had to answer "no, these go to 11." Only one person got the joke.