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Re: Mechanum Programming for One Joystick

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Originally Posted by rachal View Post
Does your joystick rotate too? Might be a good idea to have a separate control for that. We used a potentiometer with a record mounted on it as a turntable last year
Last year, we originally had a joystick that twisted (for the z-axis of mecanum drive). But after experiencing lots of problems (namely, it was too difficult to achieve fine control over the short twisting range of the joystick), we swapped twisting out to a second joystick.