How to program an arm?

[Ian McShane]

I have the 3 servo motors for the arm programmed in the begin vi, I have The second joystick programmed in the teleop vi, and the begin vi , now what.

[bladetech932]

Well you need to decide how you want to control your arm
1.buttons?
2.joystick?
3.telekinesis?
You need to give us some details so we can help you the best

[Ian McShane]

well it will have 3 degrees of freedom so 3 motors, (telekinisis would be nice ) but one motor with the x axis, and the other 2 with 2 buttons each.

[Ian McShane]

We already have the arcade drive with the first joystick for the driving part programmed good, we just need the arm. I even have the 2nd joystick programmed into the teleop vi, i just need to know how to program the buttons and x axis to joystick.

[bladetech932]

1-ok, well First you are going to want to pull out the reference for your second joystick
2-Second you need to pull down a Get.vi
3-Third you need to get two unbundle by name functions from the Cluster,Class and Varient section
4-Wire the unbundles to the button and axis output
5-you need to create open.vi's for three motors (each one set to its pwm)
6-To make the motors move on a button you are going to need a case structure for each motor with the set speed.vi in the case structure set to the speed you want to move it
6-for the axis just wire axis one into a set speed.vi

If you are needing to learn the basics i suggest you watch the videos from here http://www.frcmastery.com/

[Ian McShane]

and this is all in the teleop vi?

[bladetech932]

Yes, sorry i would post a pic but snowed in without a programming computer

[Ian McShane]

np. by the way, how is your season going?

[Ian McShane]

and on step 6 i am confused, the other 5 i already got.

[bladetech932]

to get a motor to turn at a certain speed when using a button you put a motor set speed.vi in the true case of the case structure,then wire the unbundled button to the case condition. The false case needs to be a set speed.VI set to what you want the motor to do when the button isnt pressed

[Ian McShane]

wait, so i have step 2 in the 7 steps thing, now what?