Teams: How did you use your potentiometers this year?

[Mark Pierce]

Last year we used pots to read position on all three arm movements (height, left-right, angle) with corresponding pots on the OI for direct position control. Yes, we converted the values into degrees for the arm angle.

This year we used one pot in conjunction with two selector switches on the OI to adjust many values. I had hoped to implement storing these values in EEPROM, but never got that far. Still, setting the shooter speed and turret position PID loop values was easy. Once we found the values we wanted, we just hard coded those as defaults.