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Re: Controlling motor speed with joystick scroll

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Originally Posted by AlexBrinister View Post
If you really want to do that, you don't need to do algebra because WPI does it for us already. All the axes read from 1 to -1. So you should be able to just give the motors the axis and they should behave accordingly.

Alex Brinister
You don't want to run your shooter in reverse and you want to be able to get maximum resolution by using the throttle's full range of travel.
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