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Re: Programming Mecanum?

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Originally Posted by Robby Unruh View Post
Our team made the mistake of putting our mecanum wheels straight on all four sides so that's something we had to program around.

The wheels are supposed to be "straight", i.e. the plane of all 4 wheels should be parallel to each other.

The rollers on each wheel are at a 45 degree angle to the plane of the wheel, and should form a visual pattern that looks like this when viewed from the top:


Code:


\...../
 .....
 .....
 .....
/.....\

... or this when viewed from the bottom:

Code:


/.....\
 .....
 .....
 .....
\...../



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