[EricH]

Originally Posted by Roosevelt08

Hi,
Im a student in the Advanced Physics class at Roosevelt High School. Our team a few years back left a base of a robot and it has been laying around. We took it and tried to make it out of something this year. We just ran into a problem. Myself and my partner know nothing about how to program this robot or attached things to it. All we can do it build to it and drive it. So i just added another motor to run a turret. I plugged the motor into a spike then connected it to power and the motherboard. (the ones next to the 4 that run the drive motors) All the new motor i added on does is run. How do i take control of the new motor so i can control it with a joystick?

Thanks,
Josh

Spikes are on-off switches, in effect. You want a Victor speed controller. That'll solve most of the problem, other than programming. (For programming, EasyC ought to work.)