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Re: Holonomic Drive Mathmatics Discussion

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Originally Posted by ajlapp
we did cut those sticks and wire them into one port..........not too much trouble!

and as for using more sophisticated programming......

in 2002 we didn't have the processing power to properly calculate the coordinates. we came up with the sticks! they worked awesome......but you could do it any way you choose.

my money is on sticks though.......cheap error-proof, effective!
Its a very simple and effective solution to a fairly complex problem. The only downside is that you would be unable to translate and rotate at the same time, which may or may not be worth the extra effort. If that is not a consideration then this would be hard to beat.