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Originally Posted by phrozen solyd
Whoa! For the second year in a row, 1114 astounds me with their awesome robots. That's a pretty cool swerve you guys have got there...really, really impressive; its a lot more than can be said for our team's drive train 
How fast does it go?
And how do you guys control it? |
Knowing that we've impressed the Cheesy Poofs makes me feel very good about what we've done. Thanks.
Our top speed is about 11 ft/sec, but we rarely have found a need to travel that fast on this year's congested playing field.
The joystick controls are fairly intuitive, with the joystick position creating a vector which represents speed and direction of travel of the robot. On the bottom of the joystick we have a finger dial which is used for changing the orientation of the robot. Basically, if you never use the dial the robot should never deviate from it's original orientation. It's pretty cool. Come check it out when you have a chance.