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Re: Silly question about controlling motors

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Originally Posted by ZeroCoder View Post
I know I can just invert the motors in the code, but my OCDness is telling me that it should be working correctly by default.

Any ideas what could be causing this?
The RobotDrive code has no way to know whether your motors and transmissions end up with the wheels spinning forward for positive or not. I suspect that it defaults to the kit-bot orientation to make things easy on new teams.

The first thing I have the students do when we code the drivetrain is put the chassis on blocks and see what happens this year.
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