Thread: Steering wheel
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Unread 21-12-2006, 15:41
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Re: Steering wheel

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Originally Posted by Hieb View Post
True. My initial impressions (while I was writting before) was that with the steering wheel it was more of an either/or proposition--I can either have a tight turn (ex. left wheels = 127, right wheels = 254) or 0 turn radius (left wheels = 0, right wheels = 254), but not both as would be possible with joysticks.

Further thought on the matter has led me to an implimentation that would allow both--I guess I just like joysticks because with a rookie team that only has 1 programmer (and she has no previous programming experience), I'll probably end up writting most of the code this year and joysticks are easy to implement.
You could always have a button on the steering wheel or a switch to change drive modes.