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Unread 19-01-2011, 01:22
Dfontana Dfontana is offline
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Re: Programming full "holonomic" for mecanums

It's funny that you say that, because I and a collaborating programmer spent the better part of a week writing a custom VI for Holonomic Drive last year, only to be given the "black box" - which was almost the exact same code - in the LabView update a week later.

I will admit that an understanding of the underlying code and concept was very beneficial. However, for novice programmers or those just looking to get a drive system working at the moment, there's really no need to reinvent the wheel, so to speak.
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