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Unread 18-01-2004, 15:33
Mercutio Mercutio is offline
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Re: single stick drive

sorry bout the double post, but people tend to post while i'm writing and i have to respond... [edit]of course, someone posted while i was writing this, so now it isn't a double post.[/edit]


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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
with either one OR two joystick control, you can get the full range of commands to both left and right motors- from 0 to 254 and every possible combinations of commands in between.
true, but for me it's easier to tell how much power each side of the robot has with two joysticks. i can say, "okay, my left hand is all the way forward and my right hand is halfway back, so the left motor is going full forward and the right motor is going at half speed in reverse." with a single stick, you can't control the motors independently from one another -- at least, not without a lot of practice.

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Last edited by Mercutio : 18-01-2004 at 15:36.