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Re: mecanum joystick selector?

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Originally Posted by Devo1098 View Post

i have a mini mecanum bot, im trying to program it (programming is not my area, building is)
It looks like you have the wheels on backwards. There's enough of a difference between the length and width of the chassis, so it's not a huge problem, but I think your robot might have a hard time spinning in place under its own power, and might find it hard not to spin in place when something is trying to push on one of its corners.

If you swap the front and back wheels on each side, you'll make it more able to spin only when desired. (You'll also have to change the software to account for the change, of course. That could easily be as simple as switching the sign of one or two computations.)

This is a separate topic from software, so I'm putting it in a separate reply.