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Originally Posted by EricH
As I understand the Halo controls (not having played it), one stick is motion and the other is rotation. In an FRC application, it would work better on a mecanum or swerve. The other similar type is a throttle stick/steering wheel setup.
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This is why I chuckle (not out loud, due to an overbearing sanity) every time I read something about mecanum being hard to program or to use. Mecanum straight out of the box works very well (as long as your CG is in the center of the wheels), and -- this is the big part -- controls EXACTLY like a first-person shooter. This means that your average driver has a gazillion hours of practice controlling an out-of-the-box mecanum-type system, even if they've never done a minute of FRC. We love mecanum drive, and this will be our third year using it.
That said, IMNHO straight-up mecanum will have a much bigger problem this year than barriers and bridges, and those using it will find that other robots are a great impediment to success.