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Re: Just began using Java

Change this line:

RobotDrive myDrive = new RobotDrive(1, 2);

to:

RobotDrive myDrive = new RobotDrive(2, 1);


Think about what's happening. When you push forwards on the joystick, the RobotDrive tells both motors (1 and 2) to drive forward, which works fine. Likewise, pulling the joystick backwards makes both motors go backwards.

But if you want to turn left (spin in place) then one motor has to go forwards and one has to go backwards. In this case, it picked the wrong ones, and as a result spins in the wrong direction. By switching the order you pass in the motors, you'll switch it's choice and it'll turn in the right direction.
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