12-02-2014 11:47

Nemo

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I don't really see the point of this. Why don't you just define your stop position as "10" and then program it to stop at 10?

12-02-2014 11:51

Nate Laverdure

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...because this arm goes to eleven. It goes one farther.

12-02-2014 11:52

Jon Stratis

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http://xkcd.com/670/

You are obviously a normal person!

12-02-2014 11:54

404'd

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Because these goto 11

edit: others beat me to it

12-02-2014 12:53

mrwright

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This is awesome! Made my day.

12-02-2014 13:53

wilsonmw04

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Love those colors :-) paint or powder coat?

12-02-2014 14:10

DampRobot

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You know, some times youre at ten, and you just need that push off the clif, so you turn up to eleven...

12-02-2014 14:29

Taylor Hawkins

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All powder!

12-02-2014 15:03

Jibri Wright

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TURNT UP!!!

12-02-2014 17:15

dellagd

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Question: Why do teams put user input things on the robot? We've always put any toggles on the driver station and never had a problem.

12-02-2014 17:26

Qbot2640

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I'm guessing here that this team put a potentiometer on the pivot of this arm. The movement of the arm turns the shaft of the pot and they are taking a voltage drop across the resistor to translate into angle...the knob and the "11" are only decorative (but great).

12-02-2014 18:33

Nate Laverdure

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In the period of FRC history between ~2005 and ~2009, it was popular to use a user-input device was mounted on the robot to select between different autonomous modes.

12-02-2014 19:37

Brian C

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Many teams still do this. It makes it easy to switch "on the fly" when setting up for a match

12-02-2014 22:34

cad321

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That is 100% correct. The POT gives us the position of the arm allowing us to then do presets on the arm, have more precise control in autonomous and plus... it can go to eleven just in case we need to move the arm just that little bit further .

12-02-2014 22:49

AKSoapy29

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This year for FTC actually, my team decided to use a 6 position rotary switch to switch between different autonomous's, as well as a pot for a time delay. Between matches, we found ourselves often changing our code to account for our alliance partners, but now we think we have a more solid strategy plan going into state.