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Re: Holomonic Drive mathmatics discussion

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Originally Posted by greencactus3
ahh EXACTLY lol. except i was explaining for 4 sticks but same concept. how exactly are the pipes connected to the joystick? do you have a different angled picture? so yea. awseom. so why are other teams going all fancy with their programming? if i were gonna drive the omnied robot id want controls like this.
I've got a couple of theories....

1) That's three joystick ports taken, unless you start hacking up wires and getting some crazy soldering going. And joysticks cost money to get more and more each year (as I imagine it's hard to impossible to do such a thing and easily keep the joysticks in COTS form).

2) Going fancy with programming has the added benefits of being able to know where you are on the field, which in recent years (since that kiwi drive was built) has become quite handy for autonomous mode.
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