So I'm having issues getting my servo's to increment. It wants to jump all the way to 255. As if as soon as I hit button 1, the if statement is engaged permanently and the position continues incrementing all the way up to the max.
Thoughts?


I have my L_Pinch servo initialized to 0.
It's embedded within
task main()
while(true)

if (joystick.joy1_Buttons == 1)
{
servo[L_Pinch] += 5;
}

Is this the complete program?

- Xander

The program is probably doing what you want it to, but it's just doing it too fast. If you have no wait time between the if statement, then as soon as you press the button, the processor is so fast that the servo value goes to max before you can blink. I seem to recall that ROBOTC has a servo change rate variable in the servo debugger, but I could be wrong. If not, you can use a simple bit of code to slow down the servo. Here's an example:


This will only check and update the servo every 50ms without interrupting your other functions with lag. You can change the 50 to make the servo move faster or slower. Hope that helps.

I was thinking about the timing issue. I solved it differently though.

if (joyBtn(4))
{
servo[L_Pinch] = ServoValue[L_Pinch] + 5;
}

I found that the servo[] command is to set the value and servovalue[] reports the value.
So if servo[] = servo[] + 5, then somehow the iterative loop fails the system.
Thanks for the responses.