Encoders

[frenchie4111]

Does anyone have a working tutorial for getting values from encoders?

[Mark McLeod]

The NI people included a bunch of examples with LabVIEW.

• On the Starting screen on the bottom right you'll see "Find FRC Examples..."

Click on that and you'll see a long list of folders.

• One of the folders is "Sensors"

Double-click on that to get a list.

• You'll see "Encoder Example.lvproj"

Double-click on that to open this example project.

• Expand the RT Target and you'll see "Encoder Example.vi"

The front panel demonstrates how everything gets wired.

The block diagram has the example code.

Use this example project as-is by just changing the target IP to your own, and it's good for verifying that everything is working properly and you can probe various spots to see how it works.