Thread: Controlling a Mecanum drive with two joysticks?
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Re: Controlling a Mecanum drive with two joysticks?
We did this last year only using 3 axes. On the left joystick, it was overall translation, with x and y. It also controlled strafing sideways, forward, and diagonal. The right joystick just had the x axis, and it was for rotation. It was relatively easy to drive.

Programming it was another story. We used another person's code that wasn't a part of FIRST and worked off of that. You can find code for how to do it on the vex platform, and base it off that.

To prototype though, do it on VEX with a holonomic drive using omni wheels in the offseason. Same code and it's definitely cheaper.

Good luck